He could have owned what happened after the crash.

He could have stopped before he ever married me.

He had a hundred chances to choose the truth, sweetheart, and every single time, he chose the lie.” She was quiet, watching the trees go by.

“And Uncle Sebastian?” she asked.

“Uncle Sebastian was afraid too,” I told her.

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid.

It is one of the most important things I have ever tried to teach my daughter, and I learned it, in the end, from an uncle she barely got to know.

He was afraid, and he tried to do the right thing anyway, even when it was hard, even when it cost him everything.” People say the truth tears families apart.