“I’m learning.”

Mason invited him to join a chess game.

Delilah made him wear a paper crown.

Savannah asked him to photograph her and her brothers together, then took the camera and photographed him standing awkwardly with four balloons tied around one wrist.

Near the end of the party, Terrence found me by the kitchen sink.

“I missed so much.”

“Yes.”

“I keep thinking about what first steps must have been like.