When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
“Then drove away.”
My father snapped:
“We were drowning.”
“And apparently I was ballast.”
Leo closed his eyes.
My mother began crying again.
For the first time, the tears did not move me at all.
PART 16 — LEO SPEAKS
“I didn’t know.”
His voice came from behind them.
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