Twenty years after losing his wife and daughters, I thoug ….

I don’t sell the house out of grief anymore.

I sell it because we need a bigger one, one with rooms full of laughter instead of silence.

Diane visits sometimes. Laura forgave her before I could.

“Holding on to anger,” Laura tells me one evening, “is just another way of staying lost.”

I look at our family around the dinner table, six faces I thought I’d never see together again.