I Let Them Throw Me Out Before They Learned What Richard Left Me

of them.

When Richard traveled, I handled everything.

Parent-teacher meetings. Flu season. The year the basement flooded. Marcus’s broken wrist from trying to jump a bike over a hedge because David dared him to.

Life.

Plain old life.

And the boys let me. Mostly.

David changed after he married Cynthia.

You could watch it happen like weather moving over water.continue reading …