“Can Grandma still come to the concert?”

“You can decide how much contact you want with her.

I will not make that choice for you.”

She did not answer right away.

Instead, she took the concert invitation from her school folder and smoothed its bent corner against the table.

“I want to sing my song,” she said.

“I do not want everybody asking me about the papers.”

“Then we will keep the papers out of the concert.”