June accepted that answer.

Children often understand boundaries more easily than adults who have spent years treating them as insults.

At home, I placed the stone in the windowsill beside an old plant that was finally thriving.

It was an ordinary object, but I liked having it there: proof that something could be handled gently without anyone demanding immediate ownership of it.

PART 19: The House That Changed Its Meaning

Of the three houses Warren had transferred to me, I had sold two.