After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

melancholic but accepting. “Yeah. He got that, too.”

Once the sugar high crashed and the guests filtered out, Robert stepped out onto my narrow balcony to escape the stifling heat of the apartment. Through the sliding glass door, I watched Logan silently follow him out into the humid Nashville night.

For a long time, the two men stood shoulder-to-shoulder,continue reading …