*One Year Later*

*Olivia*

I flew through the house, frantically double-checking the decorations for Elio’s first birthday party. After Gio told me that paintings done by an artist in the first year of their career was too obscure a theme for a child’s birthday, I’d settled on Elio in One-derland, inspired by one of my favorite books growing up, which I’d already begun reading to him.

We’d decorated the front door like a rabbit ...