I Bought My Daughter a House and at the Housewarming Her Toast Left Me in Tears

around me, the way cities are at that hour when most people have decided the day is over. I had the window down a little, and the night air came in cool and clean, and I drove without the radio because I wanted to think.

I thought about Nancy at three years old testing the floor of our doorway.

I thought about her at five, asking the question I had not continue reading …