Contents

Title Page

Epigraph

1: In the Black

2: Elizabeth

3: The Box

4: The Slingshot

5: We’ll Always Be Who We Are

6: The Paintbrush

7: The World’s a Hard Place, Andy

8: The Happy-Face Card

9: No One’s Here for Rest

10: The Envelope

11: The Letter

12: The Pocket Cross

13: The Difference between Singing and SINGING

14: The Pine Needles

15: The Muck and the Mire

16: Paper Napkins

17: Needed by God and Man

18: The Cap

19: My Brother’s Keeper

20: The Fingernail

21: Black and White

22: Bubble Gum

23: Hungry Dragons

24: The Golf Tee

25: Do-overs

26: The Key Chain

27: Eric

28: The Weight of the World

29: Settling Up

30: The Plan

31: Ordinary Things

32: Heisme

33: The Anvil

34: Jake

35: Paper Angels

36: The Beginning

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