wanted as a boy and never been allowed. He’d hidden it in a closet he knew Eric would eventually find, because Eric was the one who cared about Dad’s military history, the one who’d go looking for the papers. And he’d left a note with Eric’s name and a test built into it — a test of whether Eric had grown into himself enough to wear the red.
“If Eric puts on the red one,” Dad had told Mr. Lawson, “he’s made peace with who he is, and he’s ready to
