Michael Turner took Sophie to a Padres game in the first August and then, without anybody arranging it, kept doing it — four or five games a season, for years, which he has never once described as anything other than liking baseball.

Rachel Ademola started sending a birthday card and then started coming to the birthdays, and told Sophie stories about her mother at work that nobody else on earth had.

Priya, from Denver, calls on the anniversary.

Every year.

She has never missed one.

And Emily’s firm did something Margaret has never been able to repay.