I’m Still Your Brother
I did not want a child to repair me.
I wanted to give away the thing I already had too much of and nowhere to put, and there is, I think, an important difference between those two, and Gail heard it.”
Gail studied me for a long few seconds.
Then she nodded, slowly, and something in her posture eased.
“That,” she said, “is the right answer.”
Chapter 5 — What Love Was Not Enough For
The process took months, and it was nothing like I had imagined.
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