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

the shore. I heard the weather in the background and his voice coming apart at the seams, and I understood before he finished the sentence.

Search teams worked for four days.

They found nothing.

They explained, in the kind, exhausted way of people who have had to explain this before, what fast currents do. They used words and phrases that were meant to continue reading …