Finn was doing better in school.

He laughed more often, asked for help when he didn’t understand a homework problem, and sometimes went a whole day without picking up the old phone.

His teacher said he had started raising his hand again.

I asked Dr.

Bell if we should do something to mark the date.

She said we could follow Finn’s lead and avoid turning a single day into a test of how well he had recovered.

Some anniversaries mean nothing special to a child until the adults insist that they should.