I promised I would keep making room for her questions.

Gregory wrote about fixing her bicycle and the day she learned to whistle.

Then he wrote about his failure to share the records sooner.

His apology was plain and direct, without a paragraph explaining his intentions.

Violet contributed a note about Rose, who had once spent an entire afternoon helping a lost dog find its owner.

She included no instruction about how Paige should remember the woman she’d never met.

We sealed the letters and placed them in the cedar box.