She chose when she wished to speak of what had happened and when she did not.

They were small choices.

But they had been taken from her by force and in secret, and taking them back, one at a time, was how she came all the way back to herself.

Mother Inmaculada watched it happen and did nothing to hurry it, because she understood that the reclaiming had to be Amparo’s own, or it was just one more thing being decided for her.

There was one choice in particular that Inmaculada remembered long afterward.