My Dad Left My Mom With Ten Kids For A Younger Woman Then Came Back Years Later

missing us while being thoroughly absent from anything that constituted our actual lives.

When we cursed him, which we did, the older ones, quietly, when our mother was not in the room, she would shut it down with the particular gentleness she brought to correcting us.

“Don’t let his choices poison you,” she would say. “People make mistakes. They’re continue reading …