When the therapist asked Ethan to explain the picture, he said the little box was like the apartment his dad lived in. “I know my dad wants to be with us—he’s looking out the windows to see us. And we’re looking out our windows, but with that big fence we can’t see him.” When asked if he would like to be a dad someday, Ethan hesitated. “Maybe not.” Then only his eyes spoke, with sadness. When the therapist asked why he was sad, Ethan said, “I would want to have children, but I’d want to see them, and they’d probably be too far away and they couldn’t get over the big fence to see me.”
