I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

“I’m sorry,” Nathan said. “I know it’s not enough. I know sorry doesn’t cover twenty years.”

“No,” I agreed. “It doesn’t. But it’s a start.”

One week after the party, my mother called.

Her voice was smaller than I’d ever heard it. “I’m not calling to apologize. I don’t know how to apologize for what we did.”

“Then why are you calling?”

A long silence. continue reading …