If I let myself, I can still be angry about the years that lie cost us.

Mostly, standing in the gravel, I just held on.

Chapter 16 — This Is My Family

The screen door clicked behind me.

Owen came out first, the way he always goes first, and the other four filed out after him and lined up along the porch railing, quiet and uncertain, looking down at three strangers weeping in their driveway.

Ruby wiped her face and looked up at the porch full of children in open astonishment.

“Bernard,” she said.