PART 10: The Box My Father Left Behind

The knock came shortly after six.

I was still wearing the shirt I’d worn to the funeral.

When I opened the door, Marcus stood on the porch holding a sealed cardboard box.

It was larger than a shoebox and heavier than it looked.

My name had been written on the side in Dad’s familiar block handwriting.

Marcus carried it into the kitchen and placed it on the table.

“Your father gave me this a while ago,” he said.