My Daughter’s Bullies Visited Her Hospital Room Every Day—Then One of Them Asked, “Do You Really Have No Idea What She Did?”
Her eyes filled.
“And neither should she.”
That was the first adult connected to the situation who said exactly the right thing without needing correction.
PART 39 — MADELINE’S ANGER
As her body recovered, her anger became stronger.
This worried me until Dr. Hale said:
“Anger can return when survival pressure decreases.”
Madeline had been too tired in the hospital to process everything.
Now she could.
One night she said:
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