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

of a goodbye. Owen went to the lake house with my husband Charlie and a group of friends on what started as an ordinary Saturday in early September. By afternoon, a storm had come in fast off the water, the kind that happens without warning in that part of Virginia, and the current had taken my son before anyone could reach him.

Charlie called me from continue reading …