They Called Her Penniless and Left Her to Die Alone. She’d Sewn a Two-Million-Dollar Secret Into the Pillow Beneath Her Head
I was the one holding still.
And by the time I understood the shape of what had happened, years had gone by, and Fiona had become my whole daily world, and I could not have handed her back to them if I had wanted to — and I did not want to.
So perhaps it does not matter that I agreed to something I did not understand.
Perhaps the not-understanding was its own kind of grace.
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