When the Eight-Year-Old Boy We Were Adopting Came Home With Everything He Owned in a Black Bag—Then My Missing Brother’s Watch Fell Onto His Bed

Then:

“The weird part is they had already decided to adopt me before anyone knew.”

His teacher apparently said:

“That sounds statistically impossible.”

Oliver:

“Pretty much.”

He got an A.

Afterward, he put the watch on his dresser.