The Knock Came Before I Could Dial 911

quit three months later. Then she came back as a case aide because, as she told me in the courthouse bathroom, “I’m not giving them my chair too.”

I respected that.

I didn’t forgive her right away.

Both can sit in the same room.

Clara stayed with me during the hearings. Temporary, they said. Then long-term. Then pre-adoptive, which is an ugly word for continue reading …