YOUR SISTER TOLD YOU TO HIDE IN THE ATTIC AND NOT TELL YOUR HUSBAND—THEN YOU FOUND THE PASSPORTS UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS

Therapy helps more than explanations ever could.

So does time.

A year after the rescue, you move to a smaller house in Alexandria.

It has no attic.

That decision is final.

Noah chooses a bedroom with blue walls and asks, very seriously, if monsters can find new houses. You sit on his bedroom floor beside a half-built train set.

“Some monsters can,” you say continue reading …