A Promise at the Grave
But I could see what it cost him.
I could see him, at the edges of things, watching the other boys with their fathers at his baseball games, the men crouching behind home plate to give tips, the dads in the stands.
I could see the small quiet ache in him, the sense of a missing piece, the question that no amount of love from a grandmother could quite fill in.
I told myself it did not matter.
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