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

has not slept much. Emma was behind him, peering around his leg with an expression of careful evaluation, and she was holding a folded piece of paper in both hands.

He held up the paper.

It was a drawing in crayon. A house with a large yellow sun overhead. Three small figures that were the children. Two taller figures that were him and Linda. And one continue reading …