Chapter 13 — A Business Opportunity

I want to be precise about what Julian did and did not do, because it matters, and because the precise truth is somehow worse than the vague one.

Julian did not cause our son’s illness.

Leo’s heart failed for reasons that had nothing to do with any human being’s cruelty; that was simply a grief the world handed us, senseless and undeserved, the way such griefs come.

Julian was not responsible for Leo’s death.

I have never accused him of that, and I do not now.