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finished reading Our Missing Hearts

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former …

I would hope that I would be the one with the courage to resist. I’d settle for being the one who resists privately but keeps up a front of being complicit. Sadly, I know the fear of losing my child would be too much for my heart to bear so I suspect I would be the neighbor who keeps her mouth shut in the face of injustice.

@jaymeb So many things are "easy in the abstract" -- or in hindsight. It takes a bit more awareness and honesty to say "I'd LIKE to be that person in that situation, but I know myself a bit better than that."