He Said My Mother Dying Wasn’t His Problem

that I had borrowed months earlier and never returned. In one of those photos, Ryan was twenty-eight and grinning under an oak tree at our wedding reception, his tie crooked, his hand at the small of my back.

I looked at it for two seconds, then put it back in the tin.

In the closet, I found the garment bag that held my dress uniform.

Unzipped.

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