The child that never was. The child that will never be.

The child might have been a red-headed boy, full of laughs and trouble like his dad. His name would not have been John, despite a history of Johns in his paternal ancestry. No, nothing so plain as John for this little boy, although names are so much harder for boys.  He might have been an Ezekiel, Zeek for short, or a Coltrane or maybe Miles or Gideon or any one of a dozen names. His energy and…