A Resort Employee Offered My Daughter a Free Glass-Bottom Boat Ride – 45 Minutes Later, the Captain Returned with Her Pink Backpack

doesn’t mean living afraid.

Because I could have responded to what happened by never letting Lily out of my sight again.

Part of me wanted to.

But that would have allowed one terrible afternoon to steal more from her than it already had.

She still loves the ocean.

She still talks to people.

She still gets excited when she sees sea turtles.

And she still carries continue reading …