My 76-year-old grandpa spent years sewing quilts and selling them at a flea market so I could walk again — then one day, a gruff biker showed up and said, “I’ve been looking for you for 20 years.”

you were both gone.”

“And you just believed him?”

“I came back months later, Maisie. He’d moved. Someone pointed me to Hannah’s grave and told me there’d been no separate service for the baby.”

“You stopped looking?”

“For too long.”

“Why?”

“Because grief made me accept an answer I should’ve questioned.”

He held my gaze. “I failed you.”

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