Chapter 12 — I Hated That Word

“Everyone called me a hero,” Edith said, and to my surprise there was something almost bitter in it.

“I hated that word.

I have hated it for forty years.”

“Why?” I asked.

It seemed to me the truest word there was.

“Because the moment people decide you’re a hero,” she said, “they stop seeing you as a person.

I stopped being Edith.