“I am doing this entirely for her, not for you.”

PART 6

The very next afternoon, I walked Harper through the lobby of St.

Jude Hospital.

In the elevator riding up to the fourth floor, I knelt down to explain things to her.

I had started the conversation the evening before, sitting with Harper on her bedroom rug while she dressed Bunny in a paper cape.

I told her that her mother had a brother and sister she had never met.

I said those relatives had recently learned where we lived, and one of them wanted to visit.