This chapter reflects on the speaker's admiration for their parents' decision to take risks in search of fulfillment and happiness, despite already having a good life. It discusses the background story of the speaker's birth and the choices their mother had to make. The chapter also highlights the importance of understanding their parents' decisions and the impact it had on their childhood experiences.
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, a coming of age memoir recounting his early years in Boston, an ongoing search for forgiveness, and a more expansive definition of family and self.