I Changed the Locks—Minutes Later My Son Arrived With a Crowbar, and Everything Shifted

in the master bedroom. And since you don’t do anything all day anyway, iron all our clothes for the week.”

You don’t do anything all day. Me, who woke at five every morning to make their breakfast. Me, who cleaned every corner of a house that no longer felt like mine. Me, who slept in a six-by-seven-foot utility room.

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