I Brought a Gift for My Grandson but Was Given Rules Instead So I Came Back With Something Unexpected

she had ever said directly to me in five years of shared holidays and carefully maintained pleasantries. The bear was brown and soft and cost fourteen dollars at the toy shop two blocks from my house in Hamilton. I had spent more time picking it out than was probably reasonable for a man of sixty-seven, moving between the shelves with my hands in my continue reading …