Twelve Days After My Husband Died, My Neighbor Stripped Every Fruit Tree Bare—Then She Told Me Why

“You tell me not to blame myself for things I couldn’t know.”

I stared.

He continued.

“Maybe do that.”

Eight.

Then nine.

Children can be insufferably wise.

PART 41 — LUCAS VISITS PATRICK’S GRAVE

Lucas asked me where Patrick was buried.

I told him.