Clara and the Hamilton Family
Flour covered his nose.
Clara wore her old blue apron.
He had found the picture in one of his father’s albums and asked permission to keep it.
“I want you to have one too,” he said.
“So you remember we were happy before the bad day.”
Clara studied the photograph.
So much of her life had been divided into before and after that accusation.
She realized she did not want to remember only the harm.