And Theo Vance was beside him for eleven of those years.
They Met at Seven Years Old Because He Lived Four Houses Down and by Ten He Was Living at Our House
Theo moved onto Delacroix Street in 2015. Four houses down, the gray one with the bad driveway.
By fourth grade he was at our table four nights a week. By sixth grade he was sleeping in our spare room so often that I stopped calling it the spare room, and at some point around 2019 I caught myself saying “it’s in Theo’s room” to my own mother, and that was that. It’s still Theo’s room. There’s a bed in it and nobody else has ever slept in it.
His home situation was hard and I’m going to say only as much as I have the right to say.
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