Footsteps up the driveway, hours too early. Clinking of keys on the hook, coins in the can, wallet on the counter.
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Footsteps up the driveway, hours too early. Clinking of keys on the hook, coins in the can, wallet on the counter.
“We’ve been coming here for six weeks, and it works for J and I, but does it work for our son? Will they love him and his differences?”
"Hurry up in the shower!" I yell, as my son's bathing quickly drains all the hot water from the tank. This was never a problem in the school years, when there was a natural order to things and school started early in the morning.
I was at the Rewe checkout when a mom entered, pushing a cart piled with crates of recyclable glass bottles. Her son pressed on a bottom crate with his toddler legs. Crash! Smash! Silence.
She’s sorry if she seems out of it, she just got back, she was gone. Gone to New York, her son passed away …