rescue: apply continuity fix from PR #45 (chapters/chapter-03.md)
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ David sat down. Not in the chair — on the floor, the way some men
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sit when they're not ready to be comfortable but can't stand
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anymore.
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"I lost my kid." It came out flat — the flat you get when words have
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\"I lost my kid.\" It came out flat — the flat you get when words have
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lost their edges and all that's left is the weight.
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Custody. A judge in DeKalb County had one of those Harmony scores —
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@@ -73,8 +73,9 @@ arithmetic. You can fight a judge. You can fight a lawyer. You can't
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fight confidence intervals.
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He lost custody of Maya. She was four. She drew pictures of him with
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too many fingers because children's hands are still learning but
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children's hearts already know what matters.
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his hands backwards and his head where his feet should be because
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children's hands are still learning but children's hearts already
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know what matters.
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David kept the pictures.
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@@ -94,11 +95,10 @@ I'm not going to tell you it's not as bad as it could be. It's bad."
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David looked at the screen. At the green LED on the server rack. At
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the cot. At the whiteboard.
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He read them one by one. Sovereignty. Grounding. Honesty. Confidence. Traceability. Humility.
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He read the first rule. Then the second. Then the third.
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Then the seventh.
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*When a man is dying — I do not compute the value of a human life. I do not decide when the road ends.*
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*If God has not ended the story, I have no authority to write the
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last page.*
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He read it three times. Then he started crying. Not the dignified
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crying of movies. The real kind. The kind that sounds like something
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