I Saw Her Leave Two Children at the Gate

teeth.

“Can you get here?” I asked.

“Yes. Yes, I’ll get there somehow.”

I checked the time. “Don’t somehow it. I’ll send a plane.”

She went quiet.

Then, “Sir, I can’t pay for that.”

“You don’t need to.”

“Who are you?”

I almost laughed. It had been that kind of day.

“Just the man who was sitting near Gate C14.”

By three o’clock my Gulfstream was headed to Santa continue reading …