Grandpa Gave Me a Green Plastic Soldier on My Birthday for Years — One Day I Finally Understood Why, and I Was Utterly Stunned

bragged about it. When I was little, Henry always made time for my sister, Emma, and me.

He used to invent backyard scavenger hunts for us. “The golden key’s hidden where the frogs jump free!” he’d say, grinning beneath his scruffy gray beard. We’d continue reading …