She was mid-meet with a lot to lose, and so she knew she should have been focusing exclusively on her own gymnastics. But she couldn’t. Leigh was losing. In fact, there was now a small chance Leigh wouldn’t even get chosen for the team. Did it matte...
I start driving her home after school—now that I know where she lives—because the bus takes too long and she wants to get back to Emanuella as quickly as possible. “I can’t believe you’re going to go through all this and let someone else watch it grow up,” she says, but I ...