Brian raised one hand but did not move closer.

My son nodded once and kept walking.

It wasn’t much.

It was also the first exchange between them in months that did not leave either boy shaking.

<strong>PART 14</strong>

One Saturday, Zachary asked if I still had the video from their fifth-grade science night.

I found it on an old external drive between family photographs and a recording of our dog stealing a pancake from the breakfast table.

The camera work was terrible.