My 101-Year-Old Grandmother Hadn’t Left Bed in Two Years—Then She Came to My Daughter’s Birthday With a Locked Red Suitcase and Said, “Take Off Her Left Sock”

M.B.

I had never noticed.

PART 52 — THE BIRTHMARK QUESTION

At four, Emma asked:

“What’s this?”

Pointing at her foot.

“A birthmark.”

“Why?”

“Bodies do random things.”

“Do you have one?”