Chapter 78

I wasn’t sure I had total control, but landing on Halloween was fantastic. Whether I had done it or not, I knew the date immediately, as I listened from the porch to Jefferson’s mother inside, whispering aloud as she wrote in a journal, just like her son.

“October 31, 1865. Each day is a gift, a treasure, with all of us together as a family again.”

She seemed embarrassed as she caught me looking, as if she maybe had to speak the words in order to put them down in ink. I turned away. It was a different time. Education was not a given. She had no need to be uncomfortable.

We were back in our clothes, or at least someone’s clothes, some sort of covering.

“Why are we putting on such strange attire again?” Calvin asked, snickering as I finished dressing Jefferson out there.