I was chopping vegetables when my four-year-old daughter

something under her arm.

A shoebox.

She looks directly at the camera.

Then she reaches up, and the image goes black.

I lift my eyes to her.

Andrew steps close and looks at the phone.

His face drains.

“Mom,” he says slowly. “Your knee.”

Diane’s hand tightens around the cane.

“I had a good moment.”

“You were carrying a box.”

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