Elias took back his train and ran to Hannah.

I went to my car with empty hands and a heart full of things I was not yet entitled to name.

PART 14

Over the next several months we added visits slowly.

I learned that Elias preferred to observe a room before entering it, and Rose needed a warning before any routine changed.

Their personalities were so different that I wondered how I had ever imagined twins might be a matched set of children.

I kept the same afternoon free every week.