“I called your old company three days after I found out I was pregnant. They said you’d moved and couldn’t give me your information. I emailed every address I had.

I sent a letter to your corporate apartment. It came back.”

“You could have found me after I became public.”

“The first articles appeared while Luke and Violet were in the neonatal intensive care unit. Luke couldn’t breathe without help. Violet weighed three pounds.

I was sleeping in a chair beside them, begging God not to take either of them. By the time they were healthy enough to come home, your face was everywhere — photographed with investors, celebrities, and women who looked like they’d never washed formula out of their hair at three in the morning.”

“That is not a reason to keep my children from me.”