My Granddaughter Whispered Grandpa Do Not Go Home Until I Realized What She Had Heard

a nausea that came and went without pattern, a weakness in my legs that I had attributed to getting older.

Her growing distance. The cheek instead of the lips. The eyes that did not quite meet mine. The feeling of being in a house with someone who had already, in some interior way, left.

And now this trip she had barely said goodbye for.

“Grandpa,” Sophie continue reading …