FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Her parents had prepared a happy “welcome home” scene for their daughter to return to. Balloons. A nice dinner. Family. Her little brother eagerly awaited her arrival.
But when they finally returned home that night from a public hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, their daughter was not with them.
“She’s not coming home,” they had to tell him.
The father, who The Daily Signal will identify only as John, reflected on the pain he felt in that moment as he looked at his son. He could read the unspoken question in the young boy’s eyes: “How could you not bring my sister home?”
“Because the little brother who loves and looks up to his sister, looks at his parents and thinks, ‘The problem must be you two,’” John said quietly. “‘How could you not bring my sister home?’ The feeling is, well, you really are the problem….
