I Took Back Everything They Called “Ours”

she whispered.

“You should probably know…”

“Your mother fainted the moment she opened the front door.”

What the neighbor saw next

I sat up in bed so fast I smacked my shin on the bed frame.

“What do you mean fainted?”

“I mean down,” Mrs. Pruitt said. “Like a church lady in an old movie. Your father caught her arm but not enough. She hit the wall first.”

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