Within a day, reporters discovered the charitable trust, the apartments, and Harper’s advisory contract.

Those matters generated more headlines than the violence itself.

I understood why: money and scandal could be packaged into stories easier than a child’s fear.

I returned to physical therapy.

I practiced balance exercises in a quiet room while a therapist stood nearby.

On some days I could walk the full marked line.

On others I became dizzy and needed to stop.

The therapy was humiliating only when I compared my body to the one I had before the fall.