A Flight Delay Stranded Me at the Airport, Where I Found the Ex Who Vanished Six Years Ago Asleep With Two Boys Who Had My Eyes

I understood that.

So I did not try.

I did not press for romance, or for a family restored on my timeline.

I started with the only thing I actually had the right to offer, which was the simplest thing in the world and the thing my mother had made impossible for six years: I showed up.

Consistently.

Boringly.