Bronx Zoo Aquarium — Tickets

On Saturday morning, he drove to the Bronx—not to the zoo’s main gate, but to the smaller, older entrance near the Fordham Road side, the one his mother would have known from when she was a girl. He showed the faded coupons to the ticket booth attendant, a woman with silver braids and reading glasses on a chain.

“I know that too.”

The manila envelope had been sitting on the kitchen counter for three days. Inside: two faded coupons for the Bronx Zoo, clipped from a Daily News someone had left on the subway. But written in marker across the top, in her mother’s tight, looping hand, were the words that didn’t make sense: “bronx zoo aquarium tickets.” bronx zoo aquarium tickets