I Got Home From the Oil Rig Two Weeks Early and Found My Eight-Year-Old Son Cooking Dinner for Strangers—The Messages He Never Sent Explained Everything.
“Four hundred and twelve.
Four hundred and thirteen.”
“Buddy, you don’t have to keep counting,” I told him.
“I’m not scared,” he said.
“I just like numbers when something hurts.”
I had to walk out into the hallway.
The doctor said the burn would leave a scar but that the infection had been caught in time.
One more week under that duct tape, she said, and we would be having a very different conversation.
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