The Room My Father Built
“That is the actual choice and there is no good version of it.”
I asked him how long.
He said two to four weeks and it was nineteen days.
Then he did four things, in that room, in the following ninety minutes, and I want them recorded because the version of this story that circulates has me alone and clever and it is not true.
He put a safety plan on paper.
Which room I slept in.
Which door I used.