It made me question what had really happened the night everything changed—and what my husband had kept from me.
“Mom, she’s not gone.”
My eight-year-old son said it so softly I almost didn’t hear him.
I stood in his bedroom holding a glass jar packed with coins, crumpled bills, and even the $50 Grandma Tracy had given him for his birthday.
For days, I’d watched it slowly fill.
That afternoon, I caught Willie adding his lunch money.
I looked at him.
“Who’s not gone?”