My grandfather raised me. When my parents died in a car crash on a wet October night, I was 12 years old.
I remember sitting on the hospital bench with a social worker who kept saying words like “placement” and “temporary housing,” and then I heard Grandpa’s voice cut through the hallway.
“He’s coming home with me.”
That was it.
Just his steady hand on my shoulder and the smell of hay and peppermint gum.
My parents died.
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