My parents skipped the funeral of my husband and two children because it was my sister’s birthday. When I begged them to come, my father calmly said,

I had replayed my father’s voice at three in the morning, searching for a crack of pain, some hidden panic, anything that would prove he had not meant it.

But here they were, standing outside my house, and still none of them had said Ethan’s name. None of them had said Lily. None of them had said Noah.

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