They had reached into the deepest part of the man and rearranged it, taught him to be small and frightened in his own home.

I was going to spend everything I had teaching him to be large again.

My brother Julian came in from the back and performed a great show of welcome, and told me at length, unprompted, how much he and Chloe had sacrificed, how they’d given up everything to care for our father, how hard it was, the moods, the confusion, the ingratitude of the old.

He showed me things.