MY 18-YEAR-OLD SON MOVED IN WITH HIS LIFELONG BEST FRIEND

Along

There were consequences for Harriet — the kind that come when you’ve falsified a record and arranged an illegal placement, and when a grieving mother finally has the paper to prove it. I’ll leave her to them. She is not the part of this I carry.

What I carry is this.

I got my son back.

Not a baby — that time is gone, and I grieve it honestly. But a tall, funny, uncertain eighteen-year-old named Noah, who had been in my kitchen a thousand times, who already knew how I