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

“I know it doesn’t make any sense,” I added, feeling rather sheepish.


“I don’t know,” Jackson said. “Maybe it does. The more I read about Buddhism and reincarnation and stuff…yeah, maybe it makes sense. Maybe it’s not all as cut and dried as we like to think it is.”


“I guess anything’s possible,” he admitted at last. “Maybe life does go on, but in some way that we just don’t understand. So yeah, maybe it was Noah. But it’s like I already told you. I know he’s up there. Somewhere. I know that. I don’t know how I know it, but I know. I don’t know if he can visit us or see us or communicate with us—I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that—but I know he’s taking care of us. In his own way. However it works. And maybe it doesn’t matter if we don’t know how exactly it works. Maybe that’s not important.”


I turned off the light on the nightstand, snuggled up to him.


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