“I spent nine years,” Arthur said, “believing that success meant winning the lawsuit and closing the deal and adding another building to the portfolio.

I was so certain, and I was so blind.

It took you walking into a county facility in Colfax and picking up a little girl for me to understand what any of it was ever for.”

“I didn’t do anything heroic, Arthur,” I said, and I meant it.

“People keep wanting to make it into something grand, and it wasn’t.

I picked up a child who needed a home, and the moment she grabbed my collar at that desk, before I knew whose child she was, before I knew anything, I knew she was mine.