She was crying a little.

“I wish Grandpa could see your place,” she said.

“He would love the light.”

I looked toward the windows and knew she was right.

PART 25

The first spring after the sale, Paige asked me to help organize a family dinner in honor of Walter’s birthday.

She wanted it to be small: the two of us, Daniel, and an old friend of Walter’s named Mr.

Alvarez, who had worked beside him for twenty years.