Eighteen Years After Ray Abandoned Him on a Dirt Road, Thomas Found His Mother’s Letter
“We signed that paper right there at her kitchen table on November fourteenth, clear as day.
You had on that blue sweater.
Pete brought a bottle of wine over.”
I looked at my watch.
Seven eighteen.
Diane’s hands stopped moving in her lap.
“Ray, that was the November I had pneumonia.”
“You were over it by then,” Ray said.