On Our 21st Birthday, We Received a Mysterious Box—We Gasped When We Saw What Was Inside

lived.”
The room blurred.

At the bottom of the letter was one last sentence.

“And look under the paper crown.”
Leila lifted the little crown from the box.
Beneath it was a tiny cassette tape and a sticky note.

Mom gasped. “I forgot she had that recorder.”

Leila stared at it. “Do we even have something to play this on?”

Mom stood quickly. “Your father’s old continue reading …