staff eight years earlier, a promotion that came with a modest salary increase and the added responsibility of managing two younger janitors, both of whom Walter treated with the same quiet decency he extended to everyone.
He had his same apartment, upgraded slightly.
He’d been able to afford a second bedroom by 2010 and a functioning radiator by by He had the same framed photo of his mother on the nightstand.
He had on the dresser now a second photo, the three boys on graduation day, their faces bright and
