At 15, My Childhood Sweetheart Promised Me 60 Sunflowers on My 60th Birthday—He Died Years Ago, but 45 Years Later, They Appeared on My Porch With a Box That Made Me Shake

hand. “Shake on it.”

“Then I’ll bring you sixty sunflowers,”

I shook his hand, laughing at how serious his face was.

He did not laugh back.

“I mean it,” he said. “Sixty sunflowers. I promise.”

We thought age and memory were the biggest challenges that promise would face.

Then came the Fourth of July.

We thought age and memory were the biggest challenges that continue reading …