HE WALKED STRANGERS THROUGH MY LAKE HOUSE LIKE HE OWNED IT

wanted to be sure I was going to do it right. And because once I told you, you couldn’t unknow it, and I wanted you to have a few more weeks of not knowing.”

She put her forehead on her knees.

“That’s not your call to make, Daddy.”

“I know it isn’t. I made it anyway. I’m sorry.”

We sat there a long time. A loon came up about forty feet off the dock and continue reading …