“What do you want to do with this information?”

“Attend my son’s birthday.”

“You don’t need a deed to deserve that.”

“I know.”

But I had needed someone to say it before we discussed another page.

PART 4 — What I Had Kept Outside the Photographs

When I came home, Ethan was making sandwiches.

Noah stood beside him on a stool, sorting cucumber slices into what he called good circles and suspicious circles.