surviving beautifully on almost nothing.
A man who had learned to receive grace in the smallest possible packages.
And then December came.
And the night that changed everything arrived without warning, the way the most important nights always do.
It was a Thursday, December 11th, 2003.
The temperature had dropped to 9° by 8:00 in the evening.
The kind of cold that didn’t just chill you, but pressed into your bones like it had an agenda.
Walter had stayed late to strip and re-wax the gymnasium floor, a job
