I was going to spend it on my son.

What I did not know, those three careful days, was that my son had found the same phone I had.

And unlike me, he had made a copy.

Chapter 3 — The Doors Open

You should understand about Tommy, because he is the center of everything that happened, though the family had spent ten years treating him as an afterthought.

He was born early, with severe respiratory problems, and he spent the first years of his life in specialty clinics instead of on playgrounds, hooked to machines that helped him breathe, fighting for a thing the rest of us are handed free.

Joe and his mother had never quite forgiven him for it.