Rose came home for winter break looking completely different from when she'd left just a few months earlier and the change went beyond the new haircut or the clothes she was wearing because there was something in the way she carried herself that spoke of newfound confidence and independence.

We picked her up from the train station and the moment she stepped off I could see it in her posture and the way she smiled at us, even in how she hugged me because it felt like hugging an adult instead of ...