At 82, I Found

leaned her head against his shoulder. “Mom says you miss her different now.”

Frank smiled faintly. “Your mother is too observant.”

“What does that mean?”

He thought about it.

“It means I used to miss what she did for me,” he said. “Now I miss who she was.”

Lily nodded as if this made sense.

Maybe, to a child, it did.

Later that night, after everyone had gone continue reading …