I Turned My Phone Face Down While My Whole Family Fell Apart

and then at me. “You want me to silence it?”

“Can you throw it out the window?”

She smiled, a tired little smile. “Third floor.”

“Then just silence it.”

She did. No speech. No soft nurse wisdom. Just tapped the side button and tucked the phone farther from my hand.

I liked her for that.

At 2:03, I heard Mason start fussing in the nursery.

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