My Son Brought Home a One-Eyed Cat Because He Said They Matched—Two Days Later, a Hidden Note Under Its Collar Left Me in Tears

something he did almost every day.

“Mom,” he asked. “Do you think a pirate could be a doctor too?”

I smiled without turning around.

“I think a pirate can be anything he wants, baby.”

“Even if he only has one eye?”

At that, I dried my hands and turned toward him.

His black eye patch rested neatly over the place where his left eye used to be. Two years had continue reading …