My Mother-in-Law Saw My Newborn Daughter’s Arm and Went Pale—Then She Told Us We Couldn’t Keep Her
Our family will never discover another secret.
Not:
Science will always give us the answer we want.
A simpler promise.
We will not confuse fear with fact.
We will not confuse ancestry with worth.
We will not make children pay for adult secrets.
And when we do not know something, we will have the courage to say: