On Mother’s Day, a little girl appears at my door holding my son’s backpack—revealing a truth I was never meant to find.

you the truth, honey. Now we tell it for him, okay?”

The next morning, I put Randy’s card, the apology letter, and the unfinished unicorn into my son’s backpack.

Then I drove to the school.

The Mother’s Day display was still in the hallway: paper flowers, crooked cards, painted hearts, and one blank space near the middle.

I knew it was Randy’s.

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