Mother Lode
![Katrina and Gus](https://katrinawrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ltym-gus-e1603550093888.jpg)
He is fourteen now. It is surreal to me, this knowledge. That he is fourteen years old in the shadow of the long-ago unspoken fear that he might not even see fourteen days is almost too much to consider. If I think about it for long, my breath grows short and my heart skips and […]