Elena Rose took her first steps on a Tuesday.
By Thursday, she was attempting to walk everywhere, falling constantly, getting up immediately, and approaching each attempt with the kind of absolute determination that made everyone who watched her laugh and marvel simultaneously.
"She has your stubbornness," David told Sofia, watching his daughter pull herself upright against the coffee table for the fifteenth time in an hour.
"She has Moretti stubbornness," Sofia corrected. "Which is categorically different. Regular stubbornness gives up eventually. Moretti stubbornness apparently dismantles fifty-year international conspiracies."
"Is that going on her baby announcement? 'Elena Rose Chang: Future Dismantler of International Conspiracies'?"
"I'm considering it."
We were gathered at Sofia's house in New Haven for a weekend visit me and Dante, Rosa and Alessandro, James who'd taken the train from Columbia, even young Dante Castellano who'd
