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

distinction felt less important than it once might have. Fault is a useful concept for certain purposes and a useless one for others. What mattered now was not the cause but the understanding, and what I did with the understanding I had.

I asked Ernesto to come to the terrace that afternoon with his briefcase. He sat across from me and put his coffee continue reading …