The first time she went, she called her father from the car afterward and did not say much.

Daniel drove out the following Thursday without telling her and parked at the far end of the lot and watched his daughter shoot free throws in the rain for about twenty minutes, and did not get out, and did not go over, and did not fix anything, and drove home.

He is aware of what that is. He is working on it.

The billboard came down in June, when the campaign ended, as billboards do. Nobody took it down for them.

The photograph is still in nine libraries. It is on the internet permanently. Lily has stopped searching her own name, which took her about a year, and which she says was harder than the physical therapy.

Two years ago Daniel Brennan sat in a house with the phones turned off and thought: for the first time, our family was smaller. For the first time, it was also whole.