I knew my daughter.

I simply was not watching her closely enough, at the one time it mattered most, and she suffered in the gap between those two things.

Chapter 3 — When Brenda Entered Our Lives

Brenda Lawson came into our lives about two years before the wedding, and for a long time she seemed to understand, better than anyone I had met since Rebecca, what our small strange family needed in order to survive.

She accepted the things that had scared other people away.