PART 16

One evening Thomas asked me to help repair a loose kitchen cabinet.

I was not particularly good with tools, but he insisted we could learn together.

We spent an hour finding the right screws and another twenty minutes realizing we had measured the hinge incorrectly.

Thomas laughed at our work and said Chloe would have charged admission to watch us.

Afterward, over tea, he told me about the year the girls’ mother died.