My husband, Ethan Cole, asked for my kidney on a rainy Tuesday night like he was asking.

itemized accounting of all the ways someone underestimated you.

Months passed.

I moved into a townhouse with Ava for a while, then into a bright second-floor apartment with plants on the windowsill and no memories in the walls.

I started sleeping through the night again.

I cut my hair shorter.

I learned that peace feels unfamiliar at first when your nervous continue reading …