That is who she is and that is the whole of it and everything else is detail.

Part Seventeen: What My Father Built

The trust was established in 2019, when Sophia was eighteen months old, and it was funded with four million two hundred thousand dollars, which is the whole of what my father had after forty years of service and a house in El Paso and a life of not spending very much.

He did it for one reason and he has told me so about four times.

He said: “I did not want that child to ever be in a room where money decided something about her.”