I Came Home After Two Weeks Away And My Daughter In Law Asked What I Was Doing In The House I Bought With My Own Money

goodbye?”

“Goodbye, Matthew. Take care of yourself.”

He waited. I think he wanted me to reach for him. I think some part of him still believed I would, because I always had before. I had always been the one to reach. That was the role they had assigned me and that I had accepted for far too long: the one who absorbs, who forgives, who adjusts herself continue reading …