service exit, away from the cli

vy around my neck,

in, to confirm the

ap in a floral arra

erena Cole

icture, a hideous tab

bassinet, his smile wide and genuine,

by under the chin

mug, placed a hand on Michael

at him with

t a clean break, but a

atural there,

earlier introduction. "Th

toasted our wedding, our pregnanc

e too bright, their avoidan

er here. The gho

felt like a phantom limb, an inconven

a family, without me. Wh

my lungs tu

ed with a sick

ake. This wasn't a

lculated, cru

ght into the middle