Meredith nodded.

“Thank you for not pretending to know more than we do.”

It was a simple sentence, but I felt it settle somewhere deep inside me.

I was finally learning that trust is built as much by an honest uncertainty as by an impressive answer.

PART 14

A Visit to Greensboro

On a gray Thursday Meredith asked me to drive with her to Greensboro.

She wanted to see her father and the factory without lawyers in the room.