At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

next is very bad.

“Emily and Derek divorced last month. Expedited filing. He claimed abandonment and incompatibility due to chronic illness. She signed the papers from the oncology ward. He remarried two weeks later in Nassau.”

I braced both hands on the wall.

The corridor floor held because if it had not, I might have sunk straight through the building.continue reading …