My Sister Called at Midnight and Told Me to Hide in the Attic — What I Saw Through the Floorboards Changed Everything

came toward me — without reservation, with his whole self.

I held him until he said, “Mommy, too squishy.”

I laughed. I was crying at the same time, in that particular way of extreme relief that resembled nothing so much as falling apart, except that you were also, somehow, being held together by the thing you were falling apart over.

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