Demolition Before the Bloom

star with the tip of her finger, her heart swelling with a bittersweet ache. “He always kept it in a old wool sock in his top dresser drawer,” she whispered, her eyes shining with unshed tears. “When I was a little girl, I used to sneak into his room just to look at it. I didn’t know what it meant. I just knew that whenever he looked at it, he would continue reading …