Brandi wrote that she had started treatment and that she was sorry he had been scared.

She didn’t mention Dwight, the shed, or the night I came home.

I could feel the empty space around everything she left out.

I wanted to rip the page in two, but Finn deserved to decide, in time, what he wanted to know.

Dr.

Bell suggested I first tell him a letter had come, rather than putting it in his hands without any warning.

We sat at the kitchen table after school.