Designer sneakers.
Things.
Always things.
Never time.
Never presence.
Never love.
Mateo noticed.
Children always do.
One evening when he was nine, he sat beside me on the couch while I balanced bills.
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I had just bu.ried my husband, and nobody knew that during that very same week, I had purchased a ticket for a year-long cruise.
I buried my husband, and no one knew that during that same week, I had bought a ticket for a year-long cruise. When my…
