They Treated Me Like I Didn’t Belong Until the Seal on the Car Door Changed Everything

He saw me and his face did what faces do when they encounter something unexpected in a context where it was not expected, a brief reorganization, a quick processing.

“Georgie,” he said. “You came.”

“Of course I came,” I said, and held out the sunflowers.

He took them with a smile that was genuine and also slightly distracted, the distraction of a person continue reading …