“Now, you two come over anytime, you hear?” Alice’s mother called to us.

We had just spent the afternoon at her house.

Dante told Alice and her mom, whose name was Lacey, the truth about his mother’s hard life. The two women listened with wide eyes and tears. I was sure that it was hard to hear, but they needed to know the truth. Only then they would be able to fully heal.

After Dante was finished telling everything, the ...