Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
I picked up the handkerchief and folded it.
I didn’t say anything.
There was nothing that would fit.
Elena wiped her eyes with the back of her wrist and handed me the thermos.
“Chicken soup.
I washed your thermos from before and filled it again.
You can keep it this time.”
I took it.