Someone Left Gifts For My Children Every Night After Their Father Died—When I Found Out Who, I Broke Down

to say aloud before.

Then Mia stepped forward.

She told him about her doll.

About her drawings.

About how she wasn’t afraid at night anymore.

Finally they looked at me.

Waiting.

I knelt beside the gravestone and placed a bouquet of wildflowers at its base.

The same flowers Noah used to bring home.

The same flowers that had started everything.

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