Ingrid Sato to serve as its advisory director.

“I only locked an examination-room door,” she said to us, at the foundation’s opening.

“No, Doctor,” Nora told her, gently.

“You opened the first door that actually mattered.” And that is why the foundation exists, and why I have written any of this down: because a single doctor, on a single busy night, chose to believe her own eyes and lock a door, and everything we have — our safety, our uncle, our lives, this foundation, the girls it will someday reach whom we will never meet — flowed from that one choice.

Most abused children never meet that doctor.