I Had Barely Finished Holding My Son’s Newborn Baby When a Nurse Pulled Me Aside and Whispered, “That Isn’t the Child He Left With”
Returned with two tiny plastic dinosaurs.
Placed them near the roses.
We left them there until rain and dirt ruined them.
Then threw them away.
No preservation.
The gesture had already happened.
That became one of my favorite memories.
Not because Oliver was “healing” anyone.