“A Struggling Farmer Took in an Abandoned Baby and Raised Him as His Son. Twenty-Five Years Later, the Young Man Came Back With a Surprise No One Saw Coming.”

The little flag moved in the evening air.

Inside, on the kitchen table, the blue blanket lay folded beside the old school photo in its frame.

Outside, Noah set down the hammer and looked at his work and then back at Michael.

“That’ll hold,” he said.

Michael looked at the step. Then at his son.

“Yeah,” he said. “It will.”

Some things do not need more words than that.