I Sat Alone Waiting for My Kids on My 60th Birthday Then a Police Officer Arrived With Unexpected News

Not in the abstract way that young people sometimes say things like that, meaning vaguely more than one, meaning the idea of children rather than the specific reality of them. He meant it specifically and enthusiastically, the way he meant most things when he was young and certain. “A loud house,” he used to say, pulling me toward him in the one-bedroom continue reading …