At 3 A.M., My Brother Dragged Me Out of My Bedroom While Dad Laughed—He Had No Idea What the Smoke Detector Had Recorded
Douglas kept screws and nails in that drawer.
Elaine kept everything else.
She was looking for a small brown button missing from my coat.
I told her it didn’t matter.
She insisted she could find it.
Eventually, she held it up.
“See?”
I smiled despite myself.