My Husband and Three Sons Were Lost in a Storm — Five Years Later, My Daughter Handed Me a Note That Revealed the Truth

the small foxes on them. She was clutching Mr. Buttons against her chest, and in the dim light from the hallway I could see that she was trembling — not from cold.

“I found something,” she whispered. “Inside Mr. Buttons.”

I thought, at first, that she meant she’d found a loose seam, or a torn bit of stuffing. Children sometimes tuck small things inside continue reading …