We woke to pounding on the front door. It was Ben and another officer. I wasn’t surprised by what they said. Mom didn’t cry until after they left. She gestured at herself and me and the room and broke down. “Why didn’t he want this? Why didn’t he want to be with us?” At around midnight, when she finally went to sleep, and I turned the front of my shirt all wet as well. Ben said they found him in the Abandonments.
