After My Husband Left For Miami I Discovered He Had Locked Me And Our Son Inside Our Own House

letters, each one its own reckoning. I read them and stored them in a box and did not reply, not out of cruelty but because I had nothing to say that would be true and also kind, and I was no longer willing to choose between the two.

One afternoon, walking Carol to the bus stop after a Sunday visit, she asked me quietly whether I thought I would ever continue reading …