My Husband Left Me In Labor To Take His Mother Shopping Until He Came Home To An Empty House

my home.

About a year after the twins were born, an envelope arrived with no return address.

Inside was a photograph of Blake standing alone beside a small lake. He looked healthier than he had in court. Older too. Quieter, somehow.

On the back, in careful handwriting, was one sentence:

I spend every birthday thanking God He gave you the strength I didn’t.continue reading …