” I said.
“Yeah,” he said, barely above a whisper.
“You scared me half to death.”
“I know. Mom, I’m so sorry.”
“I thought you were gone,” I said, and my voice broke all the way through on the last word. “When that officer knocked on my door, when I saw the uniform, I thought this was the call I had been afraid of for years. I thought this was the thing continue reading …
