His career flourished.

There were photographs of awards dinners, research presentations, and hospital fundraisers.

Priya appeared in some of them, smiling in dark formal dresses beside him.

I never showed those images to June.

I did not know what they proved beyond the fact that Warren had continued living.

On her fourth birthday, June asked why Nora’s children had a daddy at their party and she did not.

“Lots of families are different,” I told her.