Ebby’s life has been one of relative safety. Ebby has never been in a vehicle accident, never broken her arm or a tooth, never had her appendix taken out, never even been pickpocketed on a crowded city train. She has never been in a war zone. She is physically healthy and well educated. If you remove the unthinkable from Ebby’s life, if you excise just that one day in the year 2000 from the calendar, if you plug up the hole left in her life by her brother’s death, you see a fortunate woman, a life of privilege, a life to be grateful for.
