Chapter 4 — The Reckless Decision

I emptied my savings — nearly all of it, seven years of careful, unglamorous saving, the account I’d been building toward some vague someday of my own.

I bought a second-hand minivan that ran better than it looked, and five car seats, and I stopped thinking of the money as mine somewhere in the parking lot of the dealership and never really thought of it that way again.

Then I went home and did the one thing I actually know how to do.