“She anticipated you.”

“She anticipated everybody,” Paige whispered.

That afternoon we talked through the logistics of a move without either of us pretending it would make grief disappear.

Her father had friends nearby.

Paige could visit.

They could miss one another without sacrificing the rest of their lives.

Before she left, she folded the letter carefully into its envelope.

“I thought that box was going to change your life,” she said.