He asked after Lucas every Monday because Lucas was real to him, because I was real to him, because he had learned the one thing his son never would, which is that there are no minor characters in anyone’s life but your own.

Everyone is the center of a whole world.

He simply remembered it, when nearly everyone forgets.

And a housekeeper and her orphaned grandson are safe today because one wealthy old man remembered that they were real.

Chapter 3 — You Are Not Alone

The closeness between us was sealed, forever, on the worst day of my life.