She Returned Home For Christmas Only To Discover Her Family Had Already Left Without Her

would have someone standing in the right place when I needed them.”

He turned from the window and looked at me.

“That is what love does,” he said. “Not what it says. What it does.”

I thought about the ceramic angel with the uneven wings. I thought about Grandma sitting in her den chair writing letters she would never get to send, recording her testimony continue reading …