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

probably cost more than the nursery furniture and learning how to burp a baby with total seriousness.

There was Clara, who became Aunt Clara without anyone officially deciding it.

There was Lila, who sent practical gifts: diapers, legal updates, and once, a bottle of lavender lotion with a sticky note that read, For the mother, not the babies.

Ryan found continue reading …