ive grief. Her eyes were red-rimmed, her face a mask of devastatio

, tears streaming down her cheeks.

s with the practiced sorrow of a politician delivering

e-threatening infection from the burns... they had to perform a procedure. A vasectomy. I'm so

a gift. A cheap, generic wa

have something,

e. As an architect, I know design, I know materials. I had watched her spend months on the design for that watch, obs

managed to rasp

h, that? It's a gift for a donor's son. His 20th b

tage play, placeholders until her "real family" could take their rightful place. The cheap watch on m