I was chopping vegetables when my four-year-old daughter

back seat, clutching her bunny and watching me in the rearview mirror.

“Is Grandma going to be mad?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“She said Daddy believes her more.”

My eyes burned.

“It doesn’t matter,” I repeated.

The doctor saw us immediately.

He was a calm man with gray hair who always spoke softly so he wouldn’t scare children.

I handed him the bottle.

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