I Thought I’d Face Graduation Alone — Then Someone Covered My Eyes and Changed Everything

remain present in unexpected forms.

Nana Ruth was beneath the oak tree.

Uncle Daniel had come home.

Her parents’ letters were waiting inside the blue tin.

None of it could undo the tragedy that had taken her mother and father.

Nothing could restore the years Emily wished she could have spent with them.

But the surprise changed the way she understood what continue reading …