I did not immediately show it to Piper.

Her therapist was helping us choose what information was useful and what might burden her.

A child should not have to become the moral witness for an entire household.

Before we parted, I asked Eliza what she planned to do next.

“I’ve taken a job with a family who asked me what I would do in an emergency on my first day,” she said.

“They told me to call for help first and worry about everything else afterward.”