I will coordinate with the federal agents already working this.

By the time your flight lands, there will be people at that gate.

You will not have to do anything but walk off the plane with your daughter’s hand in yours.

She wrote it plainly, the way you give instructions to someone you need to stay calm, and the plainness of it did exactly what she meant it to do.

It gave me a single simple task to hold onto across the next eighteen hours — not catch him, not confront him, not fix it, just walk off a plane holding my daughter’s hand — and a task that small and that clear is a railing you can grip when everything else is pitching.