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Show 68 that something bad had happened to you. Do you know what it would do to our mom if you got hurt or " Karl was going to say "killed," but caught himself. "Or lost?" "No," Henry mumbled. "Remember that song that always makes you cry? 'Always In the Way?' That's about a little kid whose mother died, and it makes you so sad you cry. But it's just as sad when a mother loses her children. Maybe even sadder." "I'm not lost," Henry said. "I'm right here." His body had begun to relax against Karl's. "Thank God for that. But Mom and Pop did lose two of their children. That's something you never knew about. Before you were born, I had another brother. His name was Kurt. And another sister, named Kara." "Why didn't anybody ever tell me?" Henry asked. "We don't talk about them," Karl explained, "because it breaks Mom's heart." Henry was silent for a moment, mulling over the strange revelation, Then he asked, "What were they like, my other brother and sister?" Karl was quiet, too, remembering. "Nice," he said. "Kurt was two years younger than me, and Kara was two years younger than Kurt." "Did they look like me or like you?" Henry asked. "Like you." Karl thought back to the year before Henry's birth, when he'd been nine, Kurt seven, and Kara five. Kara -- sweet, blond, a miniature Maggie Rose, but thin and delicate. Kurt, with the same |
