part 2 The man who spent eleven years blaming me for our childlessness threw me out of our home9-008v

“I thought they might not have.”

“Why would they hide something like that?”

“I don’t know all of their reasons,” he said. “But I believe fear was one of them.”

“Fear of what?”

He looked at the photograph in my hand.

“Of the people who took you.”

A car passed behind us, tires whispering over the warm pavement. Somewhere nearby, sprinklers clicked rhythmically continue reading …