I’m glad you told me.

I hope you’re okay.” He signed his name with the big wobbly F that Ms.

Tran was helping him practice.

We sent his reply through the caseworkers.

No promises of friendship.

No demand that the boys explain their fathers to each other.

Just one kid telling another kid that he had heard him.

Colby’s little brother sent a drawing of a basketball court a few weeks after that.