Eighteen Years After Ray Abandoned Him on a Dirt Road, Thomas Found His Mother’s Letter
“Look at this one.
It’s different.”
I looked.
Same name, same blue ink, but the letters leaned the opposite way and the W had a little hook at the bottom the others didn’t.
“Someone practiced,” I said.
“Practiced what, exactly?”
“Signing his name.”
She said it to the salt shaker, softly.
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