The first paragraph concerned the empty house after her husband’s death.

She described rooms she no longer wanted to enter alone and plans she had made for Leo before he was born.

Daniel stopped.

“She still calls it his room.”

I waited while he continued.

Farther down, she acknowledged that she had treated him as an answer to her grief.

She wrote that she had begun to think of raising him as a purpose she was owed.

She admitted that the papers had been prepared before her hospital visit, and that taking him had not been a spontaneous response to seeing me tired.