Stop.

That’s enough.” It was the first time in his entire life, I am fairly sure, that he had ever set a boundary with his mother.

And it had arrived, like his choice in the coffee shop, precisely too late to mean anything at all.

Chapter 16 — I Stopped Managing Their Lives

The weeks that followed taught me the single most liberating thing I have ever learned, and I want to set it down plainly, because I think a great many people are waiting to hear it.

I did not need revenge.