I suppressed mine for three years, and called the suppressing kindness, and I will not do it again as long as I live.

Chapter 3 — Yes to Everything

Paulette explained what a placement would involve, and I said yes before she finished the sentences.

Yes to the background check.

Yes to the home study.

Yes to the fingerprinting, the interviews, the caseworker visits, the mountain of paperwork, the training classes a single thirty-eight-year-old man with no children takes at night in a fluorescent county room.

Yes, yes, yes.