The Woman in the Basement
I was born in the middle of it. You had a plane and three brothers and a house in Nashville with doctors in it, and I had a dad who screamed at me, and you were testing something.”
“Yes.”
“For five years.”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you stop when I was born?”
And I gave her the truest sentence I have, which I had never said out loud before that morning.