"You should have told me," she said.
"I know."
"I would have come home."
"I know."
"I might have finished anyway."
"I couldn't risk it," he whispered. "I watched you become yourself in that program. Every call, you sounded taller. I kept thinking—if I pull her out now, she'll spend the rest of her life wondering what she would have been. And I couldn't feed us on wondering."