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

in with iced tea and found them bent over a photo album Rose had brought, both of them laughing at a school picture of Rose in 1974 with bangs cut an inch too high.

It hit me in the throat, that laugh.

Loss. Relief. Jealousy so ugly I almost hated myself for it.

Then Claire looked up and said, “Mom, tell her about the time I swallowed the marble.”

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