When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
“What do you want?”
“I don’t know.”
“Good.”
I stared.
“Good?”
“If you knew immediately, I’d worry the decision was coming from shock.”
I looked down at Hannah’s photograph.
“I don’t owe them anything.”
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