Three weeks after my son died, a dog I had never seen before appeared on my porch carrying Ethan’s favorite red dinosaur. I knew the toy immediately. One eye was missing. The tail had been chewed nearly flat. And beneath its left leg were the crooked black stitches I’d sewn years earlier after Ethan had accidentally ripped it open. There was no possibility of a mistake. The dinosaur belonged to my son. But I had buried it with him. Or at least, I thought I had. I stood frozen in the doorway while the dog…
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