The gifts couldn’t answer that question.

Only the Thursdays could.

Their first meeting was forty-five minutes at a family counseling center.

Grayson arrived with three enormous bags of expensive toys.

Elias barely looked at them.

Tristan asked if he could go outside and play soccer.

Juniper hid behind my coat the entire time.

“They don’t need you to buy them,” I told him, quietly, as we left.