I Didn’t Think Much of the Young Man Visiting My Elderly Neighbor—Until I Walked Inside and Saw This

fully braced to uncover something cruel. Instead, I found two lonely people who had somehow ended up rescuing each other. Dorothy gave Alex a home when he had nowhere else to go. Alex gave Dorothy back a sense of purpose she thought she’d lost for good. Together, without meaning to, they reminded me that kindness rarely shows up looking the way we continue reading …