When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
That confidence is one of the first things abandonment destroys.
I waited.
Five minutes.
Ten.
Maybe thirty.
Time has never remained clear in that memory.
Eventually a nun named Sister Agnes noticed me.
“Sweetheart, where is your family?”
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