My daughter will grow up in a house with no such tax.

She will not learn, as so many children do, to read the emotional weather of a dangerous adult, to brace, to manage, to make herself small and pleasing to keep the peace.

She will grow up in jasmine and light, in a home where the air is safe, and she will think that safety is simply what a home is, because for her, it will be.

That is the thing I protected.