Maybe.

I suspected uninterested.

Either way, I stopped trying to interpret him.

Absence itself was enough information for the court.

I did not need to know whether it came from shame, greed, grief, or cowardice.

PART 34 — MY BODY

Everyone talked about Daisy.

Few people asked how I was recovering.

Pregnancy does not stop being physically real because the baby belongs genetically to someone else.

Bleeding.