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The album was small, maybe ten inches by ten, with a cover of cheap, faux-leather that had cracked into a map of pale rivers. Embossed in gold foil, faded to a whisper, were the words: Sonny Boy Model Album . Beneath the title, a hand-painted photograph showed a boy of about seven years old. He had stiff, ash-blond hair, parted like a military stripe. His eyes were the pale blue of a washed-out sky. He wore a miniature navy blazer with brass buttons and a crisp white shirt. He was not smiling. He looked less like a child and more like a verdict.

Page seven: Sonny Boy in a doctor’s white coat, a stethoscope around his neck, pressing a wooden tongue depressor against the tongue of a doll. The backdrop was a painted hospital room. His expression: blank but for a faint, terrible tightness around his jaw. Sonny Boy Model Album

And in a fast-forward world, that is the saddest thing of all. The album was small, maybe ten inches by