Guernica was for Solomon.
The teddy bear was for Utica.
She had nothing for Demo.
In February 1968, four weeks after her arrival in New York Jesse worked up the courage to do some detective work herself. She couldn't do any worse than her dad's sleuths.
Jesse had forgotten some things from her pre-McLean days. That was to be expected, at least that was what the doctors had told her. Some things would come back and other things might never come back. Solomon had mentioned Park Street near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn a few times, just like that, when talking about his parents. They were in the phone book. The only Ayres on Park Street were Ida and Erwin Ayre. Jesse had not called them. She feared she would not be convincing enough over the phone. And she had to make sure Ida and Erwin r
