Luca and Chloe lasted fourteen months.

They moved in together in the January after the divorce, into an apartment on the east side, and for about four months they posted photographs with captions about new beginnings, which I know because people showed me, and which I asked them to stop doing.

Marcus and Patricia did not speak to their daughter for nine months.

That was the part that made me sick, and I want to be honest that it made me sick immediately, before I had done any of the work of getting over anything.

She had been in three placements before she was fourteen.