My Children Came Back to the Hospital Pretending to Care but My Bed Was Already Empty

not looking at her, still looking at the valley. “Everything except the chance to learn what it costs to earn something.”

She did not answer immediately. I felt rather than saw her consider the sentence.

“Maybe,” she said. “Or maybe we just didn’t know who they were becoming.”

I thought that was probably both true and not entirely our fault, though the continue reading …