We don't talk much about her early life in Sierra Leone, when 3,956 people died during the Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016.
Maybe I anticipated my oldest daughter's fear amid COVID-19 because the scent of diluted bleach sometimes makes my own stomach turn.
I covered the Ebola epidemic as a journalist for The Associated Press, first in Liberia and then in Sierra Leone.
Ebola changed the course of my daughters' lives in immeasurable ways that are still unfolding.
The first time I saw this on a weathered death certificate in my adoption lawyer's office, my heart sank knowing he survived the worst of the epidemic only to still lose his life.