“But he was so lonely!” “Reasons don’t matter, daughter. Actions do.” I thought about this for a moment, not willing to stop defending him, even if, in principle, I did agree that kidnapping was bad. “How do you know he kidnapped her?” “What?” “It says he took her. You take me to the park. You don’t kidnap me. Maybe she saw he was lonely and wanted to cheer him up. Maybe she wanted to run away from her mother. You don’t know.” “That… is a good point.” “I guess we don’t know, do we? The girls never get a chance to speak in these stories.” He patted my head. “Also a good point.”
