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
Not simultaneously with David.
Ovarian cancer.
After her death, David became Oliver’s sole parent.
He developed cardiac disease and later suffered a fatal arrhythmia at forty-nine.
Sudden enough that no formal guardianship plan had been completed.
He had begun one.
That was the painful part.
A lawyer’s draft letter contained: