The exposure in that living room did not give her back a single one of those years.

It just meant that, at last, she was not the only person in the world who knew what had been done to her.

I looked at how little that seemed to lift from her shoulders, and I understood the true size of what had been taken.

Chapter 16 — The Daily Choice

“Why did you tell her I knew about the pregnancy and wanted nothing to do with her?” I asked.

My voice had gone very quiet.