Finding Chika. A little girl, an earthquake and the making of a family

"I realized families are like pieces of art : They can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are forcibly constructed, and sometimes they are merely the confluence and time and circumstance, mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen. But they are all real. Chika was a daughter to a number of people. And for the last two years, she was ours, gloriously ours...
We did not lose a child. We were given one."