Three Days Before the Casket Was Delivered, My Son Asked Me to Sign a Document

The title for the Buick.

A coffee ring stained one corner.

“Your car belongs to you again,” he said.

“I closed out the retainer on the title.

The court released it this afternoon.”

I laid my hand flat on the paper.

“Child services approved your home for long-term guardianship at four thirty.

That’s separate from the custody order.