steering wheel.
I drove home by the longest route. Memories came without invitation. The unfamiliar perfume on Nolan’s coat last winter. The calls he took outside on the back porch. The photograph he had turned face-down and never turned back. The way he stopped saying our daughter’s name, and then somehow made me stop saying it too.
I pulled into the driveway and sat there for 15 minutes, just thinking.
Inside, I placed the velvet box in the center of the kitchen table like evidence. Then I sat down and
