I Was Lifting Our Heavy Mattress to Search for an Earring I Had Dropped Behind the Bedframe – I Expected to Find Some Dust, but What Was Carefully Taped Beneath His Side of the Mattress Made Me Slowly Sit Down on the Uncovered Floor
A little boy grinned up at the camera with a gap where his front tooth should have been. He was holding a plastic dinosaur. There was a savings passbook tucked beneath the photo, and when I flipped it open, the account was in a boy’s name. Milo.
