For Years I Resented the Homeless Boy My Mother Fed. After Her Funeral, He Revealed the Secret She Had Kept From Me.

For once, the comparison did not hurt.

PART 10

On Sunday afternoon Gabriel came by to deliver a folder of photographs he thought might belong with Dad’s tapes.

He had not expected the house to be full of children, and his surprised expression made Ben laugh.

“Are you the man from Grandma’s pictures?” Lucy asked.

“I might be.