Integrated.

EPILOGUE — SHE WAS REALLY HERE

For two weeks after my daughter died, I believed the worst thing that had happened to me was that I never got to meet her.

Then my eight-year-old son whispered:

“Mom, she’s not gone.”

And for a few terrifying hours, I wondered whether my family had been hiding something almost impossible.

A baby.

Money.

A sister-in-law near an elevator.

A frightened child who had seen enough pieces to build the wrong picture.