#MOUA

But that was the world I grew up in. You didn’t need reasons to be smacked, or worse, only timing. A version of Cat Stevens Father & Son delivered long before the song became a hit where “from the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen” became the path.

If this book offers anything, it is permission to sit with the questions rather than rush to answer them, and to accept that sometimes the value of a life is not found in what it returned, but in what it willingly gave.