My 10-year-old daughter always rushed to the bathroom as soon as she came home from school. When I asked, “Why do you always take a bath right away?” she smiled and said, “I just like to be clean.” However, one day while cleaning the drain, I found something. The moment I saw it, my whole body started trembling, and I immediately…

would never fully fade, but I knew that as long as we had each other, we would always find our way back to the light.

It wasn’t the first day of school that made my heart ache. It was the days that followed—the small, subtle moments where I could feel Lily testing the waters of the world again, trying to see if it would break her. Each day, she woke continue reading …