Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care

It stalled twice tonight, both times after dark.

If you need driving somewhere this week, ask me in the daylight and I’ll take you.

I’m not going over the river after supper in this thing.”

“Fair.”

“So where was he, then?

That night.

If he wasn’t in the car, where did he get treated?”

“Nowhere I’ve found.”