The goal wasn’t to erase what happened.

It was to help her feel safe enough to enjoy everything else that life offered.

My business had recovered from the months when I’d been distracted.

Daniel Cho had become a partner, an arrangement we had discussed for years and finally put into writing.

He told me I had become better at delegating.

“That’s a polite way of saying I used to be impossible,” I said.

“Correct,” he replied.