“Stay while I rest.”

He stayed.

PART 5 — Two Bassinets in Houston Heights

That afternoon, I slept while my father sat nearby.

When I woke, he was studying the instructions a nurse had given him about holding Harper.

His concentration would have been funny if I had not been too tired to laugh.

“She’s smaller than I remember you being.”

“Your memory has had a long time to make me sturdier.”