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
He grew into someone who could roll his eyes at our sentimentality.
That was success.
The watch was different.
It belonged to him before it belonged to our story.
David had given it to his son.
I recognized it.
The engraving carried my name.
Still: