Jesse’s exit

I am scribbling notes as fast as my hand can move. Jesse is a fast talker for a 7-year-old, and an indecisive one at that. His favorite color is blue … no, yellow … not yellow really, but banana yellow. I wonder if Crayola has come out with yet another color since my childhood.A colleague walks past the confidential two-way mirror room, or the spy room, as we call it. He peeks in. “Really using those writing talents, huh Bernard?”

“What writing talents?” Jesse asks, innocently enough.

“Exactly,” I say. “I think that was his point.”

Jesse is wearing faded ash-colored suspenders with a Pok

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