He Kicked Me Out While I Was in Labor — He Didn’t Know I’d Just Inherited $20 Million

a face I was learning the way you learn a landscape — by returning to it daily, by the different light it held at different hours. She had her own preferences already, small and absolute: she liked to be carried facing outward, liked the particular song I made up for her that had no real lyrics, did not like Tuesdays for reasons she had declined to continue reading …