I Was Holding My Son’s T-Shirt When His Teacher Called And Said He Had Left Something Behind

who had become a locked room I couldn’t find the key to — spend twenty minutes being the person a floor full of sick children needed him to be.

And I started to cry for the second time that day. But this time it was different.

The Moment Charlie Saw Me Standing There and Everything Between Us Cracked Open
I couldn’t stay against the wall any longer.

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