And it could not be supplied by a wire transfer, or won in a courtroom, or documented in a folder.

It could only be given, in person, one ordinary day at a time.

The whole tragedy had grown from my belief that fatherhood was something you could send from a distance, in the form of money.

The whole recovery would grow from my finally learning that it was something you could only give up close, in the form of yourself.

Chapter 14 — The Recorded Call