Chapter 24 - SOPHIE GOES HOME
Not immediately.
Kara received expanding parenting time over sixteen months.
Supervised.
Then daytime.
Then weekends.
Then trial placement.
Sophie remained temporarily with a licensed kinship foster family near Portland because Rebecca? There was no suitable paternal relative except me.
I applied.
At sixty-seven, with no child in my home for decades, I was approved for emergency kinship care after evaluation.
Sophie lived with me for nine months.
The glass? No, Portland house was Dennis’s rental. I moved back in after they were removed.
I converted the attic into nothing.
Closed it.
Sophie chose a bedroom downstairs.
Rosa painted one wall lavender.
I told her it was too purple.
She ignored me.
Good.
When Sophie moved to Kara’s home permanently, I cried in the driveway.
She said:
“Grandpa, I’m not dying.”
Children remain brutal.
“I know.”
“You can visit.”
“I know.”
May you like
“Then stop.”
I laughed through tears.
