For Years I Resented the Homeless Boy My Mother Fed. After Her Funeral, He Revealed the Secret She Had Kept From Me.
The children helped set the table, although Ben placed three forks beside his plate and Lucy insisted the flowers needed to be in a mug rather than a vase.
Leah arrived with a salad.
Daniel carried a stack of photographs he wanted to scan.
Gabriel brought no expensive gifts.
He came with a bag of apples from the orchard outside town and asked where he should put them.
I told him to leave them on the counter and join the others.