But I also know I was fighting uphill, against a house designed to teach them the opposite, and I know that the strength my daughters showed in the end, weathering all of this, was in part the strength of children who had already spent their whole lives quietly resisting a message that they were not supposed to want to be who they were.

They had been in training for this, without any of us knowing it.

They had been learning to stand up straight inside a house that wanted them smaller, since before they could walk.

Chapter 5 — The Company I Saved

And here is the part of the story that everyone in that family preferred to forget, and that I am not going to let anyone forget again.

When I met Arthur, sixteen years ago, his family did not have a fortune to hand to anyone, male or female.