For the first time in eighteen years I took the locked drawer key from my kitchen ring.

Inside the drawer was a blue hospital envelope.

I had never thrown it away.

I had also never dared to open it with my son watching.

“If we’re going to find the truth,” I told him, “we’re going to find it together.”

PART 3

The blue envelope smelled faintly of old paper and cedar from the drawer where I’d kept it.

Inside lay my maternity discharge summary, Wyatt’s birth certificate, a faded photo of me in a hospital bed, and a folded card bearing two tiny blue footprints.