I felt insane doing it and I did it anyway because a psychologist told me to, and about six weeks in, Sophia said, from the back seat of a car, without any preamble:

“You don’t have to say all of it, Mami.”

And I said, “Do you want me to stop?”

And she said, “Not all of it.

Just the medicine.”

Part Twenty-Six: The Uniform

I was a serving colonel through the whole of it and nobody ever asks about that, and it is the part that surprised me most.

Here is what the Army did.