My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

Twenty. Dana’s mouth tightened slightly, a flicker of something she was working to keep professional. She told me they’d mentioned travel plans. Her voice was neutral when she said it, the neutrality of someone who has a great deal of feeling about a thing and has decided not to spend it here.

“They went to Cancun,” I said. It wasn’t a question.

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