this situation in the first category.
Liam pulled back and looked at my face with the searching directness of a seven-year-old who has not yet learned to pretend he is not looking.
“Are you sad?” he asked.
“A little,” I said.
He nodded like this was a satisfactory answer and then said, “Grandma made blueberry pancakes.”
“I heard.”
“I specified them,” he continue reading …