The Satellite Son and the Cane Son: When Money Can’t Carry Grief

him?” I asked.

“No,” she said. “But I knocked. And I heard the dog bark—sorry, not a dog, the old alarm sound. And then nothing. I don’t want to overstep, but…”

Overstep.

That’s what everyone says right before they finally step over the line that should’ve been crossed earlier.

“I’m coming,” I said.

I told my assistant I had a family emergency. I didn’t continue reading …