My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

on them and he was eight years old and he had lost his father and he had been mocked for holding on to him and then three hundred children had sat down on a gym floor together and told him without words that his father was worth holding on to, and now he was wearing the proof of it on his feet and I watched the proof settle into him, watched it become continue reading …