I Was About to Propose to Another Woman When Four Six-Year-Old Boys With My Face Led Me Back to the Family I Never Knew I Had.

Homework.

Snacks.

Arguments over video games.

PART 6

The boys were identical enough to confuse a stranger, but they became unmistakably different once I stopped staring at my own features in theirs.

Mason liked plans.

If our visit started at four and I arrived at four-oh-five, he noticed.

He could forgive a delayed train if I called, but not silence.