Vincent & Sophie — The Empty Chair at Harbor Point
“Your teacher has a remarkable curriculum.”
“She gives us spelling.”
When the lighthouse finally lit up, its beam wobbled across the kitchen wall.
Sophie gasped as if they had launched a ship.
June came in to admire it.
“Thomas would have loved this,” she said.
Vincent looked down at the crooked little structure and felt a complicated grief for a man he had never met: the father who should have been here, teaching Sophie how to cut cardboard and repair a battery.
Helping her was a privilege, not a replacement.
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