She Left the Family Home at 66—and We Tried to Bring Her Back

We do nothing? We just… sit here and respect her autonomy while she freezes to death?”

“That’s not what I’m saying.”

“What are you saying?” she demanded. “Because all I hear is you defending her like she’s some hero in a movie.”

I wasn’t defending her. Not exactly.

I was defending the thing in her eyes the first day I saw her in that garden—alive—and the continue reading …