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

“But we were just there to see him tonight!”


He began to cry in a wounded, quiet sort of way, as if he didn’t trust himself to cry.


“We were just there!” he said again after a minute, pulling away from me, wiping at his eyes. “I knew this was coming, but…”


“Is there anything I can do?” I asked.


He dressed quickly, would not look at me.


Though we’d been married for several years—legally married, husband and husband, the whole ball and chain—he was oddly reluctant to share his feelings with me. He was not an emotional person. He stuffed his feelings inside as though they were unworthy nuisances to be endured and nothing more. It seemed rather Protestant to me.


“I’m fine,” he said, heading for the door.65: Takes One to Know One


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