This time he moved the meeting.

At the concert the children sang a song about the moon, most of them at different speeds.

Rose spotted Nathaniel near the back and waved so energetically she almost knocked another child off the riser.

Afterward she handed him a paper snowflake with more glue than paper.

He kept it in his wallet.

I saw it weeks later when he paid for coffee, bent and shedding glitter into the air.

At Christmas, Nathaniel asked whether the girls could spend the holiday at a Whitcomb family gathering.