I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

just shift slightly, make a little more room.

“I didn’t come here to be managed,” I said. “I came here to be wanted.”

He made a sound I had not heard from him since he was very young, something raw and involuntary. “I know,” he said. “And I am so sorry that I made you feel otherwise.”

In the background I heard a small voice ask something that I could continue reading …