Years have gone by since the death of Noah his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband Jackson try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.<br><br>Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony’s mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available -- the daughter Jackson always wanted.<br><br>With two children on their hands, life is complicated -- wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia ... and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.

Go Tell It on the Mountains

The face that stared back at me in the bathroom room looked haggard and old.


What a fool I was.38: Are You Listening to Me?


“People never die while taking a nap,” Tina said. “Ever notice that?”


“Have you ever opened up the newspaper and looked at the obituaries, and it was like, oh, Miss Jane died during a nap? It always says Miss Jane died in her sleep. Mr. Jack died in his sleep. I think, when I get old—and I’m not getting old, this is purely theoretical—but I think, when I doget old—if that everhappens—that I’m not going to sleep anymore. I’m just going to take naps. Did you ever think about that? Really! Who dies taking a nap? No one. Not ever! You know, I think I’m on to something.”


“So anyway, I went to see Mama the other night, and you know what they did?”


Chapter 51