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

I sat with that sentence for an hour.

He changed his name after treatment partly because he wanted distance from old debts and old identity.

Changing a legal name did not erase debts.

Creditors still found him.

He entered repayment agreements.

Worked.

Eventually became a cabinetmaker.

Met Sarah.