There was no triumph in that.

There was only the quiet terrible justice of a person finally standing in the exact place her own choices had built for her.

Chapter 26 — Let Us Help You Carry It

For fifteen years I had wondered, in my lowest moments, what it might feel like to finally set the whole truth down in the open, to have it seen and known at last.

I had never once imagined it would happen in the middle of my eldest daughter’s wedding reception.