Love does not become less secure because a child remembers other people who cared for him.

Adoption should expand safety, not demand historical amnesia.

That became one of the lessons I was least prepared for.

I once imagined being chosen meant becoming central.

Parenthood taught me centrality is overrated.

You want the child to have many safe people.

Enough people that your absence someday does not collapse the entire world.

David failed to build that network before he died.