Some of the visits were for research.
There were medical personnel who subsequently also had to explain what they knew and what they were told were preparing.
Not all the people they met along the way knew the whole story.
This had to be checked.
But for Emma, they all looked like a team in front of which her father was the safe adult.
Why was he crying
When I hugged her in her room and she kept saying she was sorry, I thought she was apologizing for something someone had done to her.
In a way, it was.
But she apologized because she was afraid and wanted to give up.
She thought it meant letting me die.
I was sitting next to her the next day when he told me.
I kept imagining how I told you I couldn’t. And you’re looking at me.
I shook hands so I wouldn’t immediately hug her if she didn’t want to.
