“You may not realize it, but the first thing I noticed about it was beauty. It was the way he sat on the floor, Matt next to the owl, and waited almost an hour until he had the courage to show him his plush bunny.
I started to cry.
I remembered that day perfectly. Matteo didn’t want to talk to me at all. He looked at me with suspicion, holding the bunny stuck to my chest, and I had sat down a few steps away from him and I had begun to browse a book with animals.
Ezoic
After about an hour, he approached and showed me a broken ear of the toy.
- Can you fix it? He had asked me.
I had fixed it that night with a needle and a white thread.
I didn’t know that Marco had always looked at us from the kitchen threshold.
I kept reading.
