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

figure in a blue dress, standing in the center of the picture with yellow hair, clearly placed at the middle of everything as though that were simply where she belonged. At the top of the page, in the large careful letters of a child who has been working hard at something: WELCOME GRANDMA.

I looked at it for a long moment without speaking.

“I should continue reading …