YOUR SISTER TOLD YOU TO HIDE IN THE ATTIC AND NOT TELL YOUR HUSBAND—THEN YOU FOUND THE PASSPORTS UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS

hasn’t earned.

At the bottom, he adds:

His dinosaur’s name is Blue because when he was two, he said the real name was too long. I don’t know if you remember that. I do. I’m sorry memory doesn’t make me safe.

You fold the letter.

You cry.

Then you put it in a box labeled CALEB — FOR LATER, MAYBE.

Not forgiveness.

Not erasure.

Just a place where complicated continue reading …