I remembered appointments and dishes that day too.

Good family memories did not require all the work to disappear before they counted as good.

Elliot picked up Ben’s current blue truck and tried it inside the box.

It was too large beside the papers, but that was not why I stopped him.

“Ben uses that.”

“I’ll ask.”

“Don’t make him feel he has to give it up for this.”

Later, Elliot brought another small blue truck from his old toys.