families.
An older woman walked forward.
“Kate?”
I nodded.
“My name is Linda. I left the blue stroller.”
I glanced in its direction.
Linda gave me a sorrowful smile.
Another woman lifted her hand.
“The pink one was my daughter’s,” she said. “She lived six weeks.”
A man stepped toward a green stroller and stood beside it.
One after another, people came forward.
Each person identified the stroller they had brought and the child who had once owned it.
I realized I was surrounded not merely by baby carriages, but