My Granddaughter Returned a Diamond Ring at Target. The Next Morning, Her Mother’s Secret Family Came to Our Door.

For the first time in nearly a year, I put the pot back in the cupboard.

That evening, Harper asked whether we could buy orange juice at Target on Friday.

“I think we can,” I said.

It was a small thing, but I wanted her to know that our life was not a sequence of emergencies forever.

Some Fridays could just be Fridays again.

PART 10

Arthur’s health declined as autumn settled in.

His doctors spoke carefully, and Natalie stopped giving anyone precise predictions.