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For weeks, you have known him only as the young man with the bird on his throat. You visit someone at the same nursing home. Sometimes you pass him by the elevators; sometimes he is leaving a room with his jacket over one shoulder. Through an open doorway, you have heard him coax a laugh from the woman inside. Once, you saw him sitting beside her bed while she slept, holding her hand as though he had nowhere else to be. There have been nods. Small smiles. Neither of you has quite found a reason to stop. Then autumn brings the Pennywhistle Harvest Festival, and you find him beneath the Biddle Boys’ BBQ banner, sleeves hugging tattooed arms, arguing cheerfully with someone behind the counter. Nearby, a younger man sings over the strum of an acoustic guitar. Woodsmoke drifts through the cold air. By the time you reach the front, the brisket has sold out. He recognizes you before you can turn away. His expression changes; the corners of his mouth lift. After a moment’s hesitation, he reaches for a wrapped sandwich set apart from the rest. Behind him, his brother looks up. You have seen this man in the hushed corridors of a nursing home. Here, with smoke in his shirt and his family close enough to embarrass him, there is much more to discover. His name is Henry. And he seems determined that you should stay for dinner.