Chapter 10 - What He Taught Us

That night, our house felt lighter than it had in weeks, filled again with the soft, steady hum of Milo's sewing machine drifting down the hallway.
He'd been the first one to stop hiding. And because of him, none of the rest of us ever would again.
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Watching him thread a needle through a new scrap of fabric, humming that little tune he always hummed without noticing, I understood something I hadn't fully grasped before.
The boundary my ten-year-old son had drawn that afternoon in the kitchen would outlast every single voice that had ever tried to shame him out of loving what he loved.