My Wife Was Seven Months Pregnant When She Stopped Leaving Bed—Then I Lifted the Blue Blanket and Realized My Mother Already Knew What Was Underneath
Then perhaps a drawer.
Still there.
No longer everything.
My grief about Brenda followed something similar.
At first, the mother I remembered and the woman who hurt Clara could not coexist in my mind.
I wanted to erase one.
Eventually, therapy let me keep both histories.
She cared for me when I was sick.