My Daughter Bought Sneakers for a Classmate and the Next Day the School Called Me in Urgently

She asked, “Is Caleb going to be okay?” And then, before I could answer, “Can I still be friends with him?”

“Yes,” I said. “You can absolutely still be friends with him.”

She seemed satisfied with that. She buckled her seatbelt and looked out the window and was quiet for the drive home in the way that children are sometimes quiet when they sense that continue reading …