The wife he left behind
he said slowly, “it should be whatever she wore on her dress. Another tree. Small, not bronze this time, something real, something that actually grows. I think, if she designed the tree, then the best thing we can do is plant one right here, where she actually is, so she can finally see it properly.”
They planted it together that same afternoon, a young oak sapling, small and certain, its whole enormous future folded quietly into something that fit easily between two careful pairs of hands.
James helped, working beside Dave with the particular quiet steadiness of someone who had arrived as a stranger and was leaving, day by day, as something else entirely.
When it was planted, and the earth
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