I learned to braid hair badly off a video.

I learned which cartoons meant which.

I coordinated the therapy appointments and the pediatrician and the little milestones, and I did it all as a single man who’d had no idea, two months before, how to do any of it, and I was tired in a way I had never been tired and I have never once, not for a single hour, wished it undone.

Chapter 13 — The Hearing