The Person Who Walked Into That Diner Knew My Husband’s Secret

He was all I had then. My daddy was gone. My mother drank herself useless. Richard said it was better if we started over somewhere else.”

“Did you?” I asked.

“We tried.”

The word tried did a lot of work.

They moved to Dayton for a few months. Richard got work in an auto shop. Rose bled too long after the birth, got fever again, lost too much weight. She continue reading …