IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
I had read it to him, standing in front of the stone with my coat pulled tight and the city making its usual noise somewhere behind the trees, and I had said everything I should have said years ago when I still thought I understood what his death had been, before I knew it was not just loss but the first act of something that had eventually reached all the way to me.
"I found them," I told him. "All of them. It took five years and more than I should have had to give, and they are not all going to prison, and some of what was done to you is going to stay unprovable, and the world is not going to be entirely just about any of this. But I found them."
I stood there for a while after that, not s