My parents threw me out at sixteen after I lost my leg. Nineteen years later they wanted a million dollars for my sister — to hide why a 24 -year-old woman may never walk again.

That evening I hired the best investigator I know.

PART 3

Three days later Arvo Lind came into my office with a file and put it on my desk, and he did not sit down straight away, which he always does.

I said: what did you find?

He sat down. And then he said one sentence that stopped everything in my body.

He said: your sister doesn’t need that million to cover a failed investment.

He said: she needs it to hide why a twenty-four-year-old woman may never walk again.

There is a charitable foundation.

It funds prosthetics, adaptive equipment and rehabilitation for people under thirty who have lost a limb. It has raised, over eleven years, somewhere north of nine million dollars.