A Nurse Mentioned the Woman Visiting My Dying Husband—Then She Came to My Door With a Letter About a Five-Year-Old Boy
She looked at the letter.
“You’re right.”
Sadie called from the kitchen, asking where the green crayon had gone.
I asked Nora to wait and went to find it.
My daughter’s picture had a dinosaur with only two legs because she had run out of room for the others.
I handed her the crayon and stood beside her longer than necessary.
Then I returned to the doorway.
“Who are you really?”