Guests ignore a man in a wheelchair—until a little girl in a scarlet dress steps forward and changes everything in seconds

had gone slightly unsteady. “I don’t know if you know what that looked like.”

“I think I might have some idea,” Ethan said.

“I just wanted the children to be able to play together,” he said. “That was all. It seemed like a basic thing.”

Naomi nodded. She didn’t trust her voice entirely.

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