Preston & Naomi — The Hidden Letters
‘The spaceship needed more tape anyway.’
Preston knew then that reliability was not the same as perfection.
Naomi had been right to insist he face the disappointment rather than cover it with spectacle.
The boys did not need a father who never made mistakes.
They needed one who took responsibility when he did.
Later that afternoon, Naomi looked around at the cardboard scraps covering her living room and laughed.
‘You used to hate mess,’ she said.