College housing during holidays.

The exact gaps Julian and I had experienced.

When I spoke to young adults in the program, I never told them:

Everything happens for a reason.

I hated that sentence.

Some things happen because adults fail children.

The goal is not to romanticize the failure.

It is to reduce the next one.

PART 56 — NORA BECOMES A MECHANICAL ENGINEER

At seven, she loved chess.