At 6 A.M. My Daughter Texted Me About the Money She Took and Said She Was Gone for Good

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Then I called a travel agency and booked Italy.

Emily came by that evening with champagne, which seemed to me exactly the right response to the day. We sat on the balcony and she told me that watching me take control of my own life had given her the courage to end a relationship with someone at university who had been wearing continue reading …