There was a justice in that so complete that I did not need any other kind.

I chose the survivors’ center over every other possible use of that estate for a reason that took me a while to articulate even to myself, and it is the reason I most want to leave you with.

I could have kept the house.

I could have sold it and taken the money.

I could have razed it, which some part of me wanted.

But none of those would have transformed it, and transformation was the only thing that would do.