Bob Lopez’s Reviews > Lost Children Archive > Status Update

"I'm constantly imagining that she'll fall, or get burned, or be run over. Or that she'll drown, right now, in this guitar-shaped pool in Memphis, Tennessee, her face, in my mind, all blue and swollen. A friend of mine calls this "the rescue distance"--the constant equation operating in a parent's mind, where time and distance are factored in to calculate whether it would be possible to save a child from danger.