After My Husband Left on a Business Trip, My Child Said We Shouldn’t Go Home. I Listened

when he’d tugged my hand and whispered that we couldn’t go home. Thought about how close I’d come to dismissing him, to following routine, to walking into a house where strangers with keys were doing dangerous things.

Thought about how children see clearly sometimes, before adults teach them not to trust what they see.

Thought about keys that shouldn’t continue reading …