My Son Walked Across the Graduation Stage Wearing a Bright Red Dress While Hundreds of People Laughed. I Was the Only Person in the Auditorium Who Knew Why.
She liked toast cut into triangles.
She liked to win at cards by changing the rules halfway through.
She liked the red dress because it made her feel, in her words, “like a fire that is allowed to be in the house.”
Julian was quieter even then.
He followed her into games and out of rooms.
When she was tired, he sat on the floor with a book and read the same page because she liked the picture of the fox.
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