“I didn’t need to,” she said. The truth was a heavy thing to place on a table. People picked at it like scabs. “It wasn’t a headline.”
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Janet closed her eyes, remembering the small body in her arms the afternoon ten years before when she’d first understood that some rescues didn’t have applause. The boy had smelled of bleach and laundry soap; he slept in a rented bed that night and left at dawn with a backpack and a list of rules. They had stayed in her apartment for two months, learned small things from one another: how to tie a shoe, how to pretend supper wasn’t a problem. The city called them fostered, temporary, admirable. The boy called her Auntie Jan. “I didn’t need to,” she said