After Spending Six Months Hand-sewing My Daughter’s Wedding Dress

started with simple things, like hemming and mending. Her first stitches were clumsy and uneven, but she persisted. She told me the focus it required was the only thing that quieted the noise in her head.

One afternoon, about a year after the non-wedding, my phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number.

“Is this Sarah Miller?” a woman’s voice asked.

“Yes, continue reading …