"I'll be fine,"

were her last words.

“Goodnight Mr. M.,” I said as I left the building via the door that is always his dismissal post. “By the way, don’t you think we need a handrail here?”

The steps are large, steep, marble, and to someone with bad depth perception due to severe farsightedness, dangerous. I am scared of them every day and wait until most of the kids have left to exit s…