Jacob agreed to help me, and time seemed to fast forward for a bit. And before I knew it, a few weeks had passed.

And as we were busy trying to hold my father accountable for murdering my sister, something impossible happened.

The crib came.

It seemed so otherworldly in everything that was happening that I almost couldn’t believe that it had happened. How was this possible? How was it here?

I watched almost dumbstruck as they carried the ...