Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.
I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.
I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
