My Husband Came Home to an Empty Nursery

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He hung up on her.

Then he called my sister, Pam, who lived in Omaha and had not spoken to Derek since he told her at our wedding that public school teachers were “basically babysitters with pensions.”

Pam answered on the fifth ring.

“Where is Connie?” Derek asked.

No hello. No fake warm thing. Just that.

Pam said, “What did you do?”

“I came home and she’s continue reading …