know where they lived.
And for a while, I was right.
Why I Came Back Now
Dad finally asked the thing he’d been circling.
“Why now?”
Because Daniel Mercer had been dead for ten years, yes. A car crash on Route 23 four months after Noah was born. Skidded in freezing rain, went through a guardrail, dead before the ambulance got there. I saw it in a newspaper continue reading …