”
I stayed for the rest of the party.
Not for Mandy.
For my daughter.
For illustrative purposes only
By the time we left, Mira was smiling again.
“Tommy really liked it,” she said in the car.
“He did.”
“He said it’s going by his bed.”
“I heard.”
Then she asked quietly:
“Was Aunt Mandy mad because we don’t have as much money?”
That broke me.
I met her eyes in the continue reading …
