Over time, the connection was lost to the people who needed to know it.”

“Wouldn’t he remember?”

“Some memories from very early childhood are fragments.

They don’t necessarily give a person a name or a place to search.

And he was told what adults believed his history to be.”

I thought about Simon saying he did not have family, usually in the flat voice of someone who did not want sympathy.

He had not meant there was a brother he preferred to hide.

He had meant what he understood to be true.