When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”

Motives at the beginning are important.

Behavior afterward matters too.

People can arrive for the wrong reason and still eventually learn how to stay for better ones.

Not always.

Sometimes.

Hannah’s leukemia never became a blessing.

I will never call childhood cancer that.

It frightened a six-year-old.