A man who spends his morning making sure I have enough food apologizing because the weather delayed him.

I told him he was absurd.

He replied that he learned from the best.

I laughed out loud.

Then I cried.

I hoped the legal process would eventually establish the truth, but I understood something it could never settle: whether the years of friendship had been enough to heal all the years Arthur spent waiting for his son.

PART 12

A few weeks later, Mr.