Chapter 17 — You Get to Decide

What Caleb gave Chloe that night, along with the box, was agency, and I need to dwell on that, because it was the wisest and most unusual thing I ever watched him do as a father.

Think about what it means to a child to be, over and over, the object of other people’s decisions.

Chloe had spent three years as something that was done to.

Beatrice decided to exclude her.