While searching for a charger, I found an old phone hidden in my mother’s drawer. It had only one saved number and a call log showing a call every night at midnight for twenty-five years. When I called, a man answered and asked, “You’re not her. Is she alright?” My mother finally explained that when I was a baby, my parents had fostered a little boy for eight months. When he returned to his family, they demanded no contact, but my mother secretly gave him a phone and promised to call him every night to say goodnight. He’s thirty-one now, and she has never missed a single call in twenty-five years. Sometimes, the deepest love is a promise kept in silence…