was on a list of three that somebody else wrote in a hospital in the April, and I did not understand until about a year later that it was my grandfather’s middle name.
PART 2
The next ten years were the hardest of my life and I am not going to make them sound noble.
Two jobs. Community college, which took me five years instead of two. Awake until two most nights at a kitchen table and asleep only when my body took the decision out of my hands.
There were months I genuinely did not know how we were going to manage, and there was one winter I would rather not write down.
And every single time I looked at that boy I found another reason.
He is clever. He is kind in a way that is entirely his own doing. He notices far more than a child that
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