The One-in-a-Million Boy

by Monica Wood

“Twenty years old and his paid employment for the United States Navy was to wrap other mothers’ sons in chains. How did my son manage a job like that? How does any son?”

“I didn’t know him long enough to say,” she said quietly. “But I can tell you what I was like in his company.” He waited. “Well?” “Dreamer,” she said, and her eyes glittered beneath their melting folds.