My 5-Year-Old Niece Whispered, “The Chair Hurts”—Then a Doctor Found the Truth Her Parents Had Been Hiding

No explanation.

Still there.

Probably always will be.

Objects are allowed to remain without adults assigning symbolic meaning.

Sometimes a rabbit is just a rabbit.

Sometimes it is also seventeen years of survival.

Both.

We kept using cushions for years.

Then one day I noticed Sophia sitting cross-legged on my hard wooden dining chair.