My Husband Forgot to Hang Up, What He Said to My Pregnant Best Friend Ended Everything

call was to my mother. She listened without interruption.

“What do you need?” she asked when I finished.

“I need you to act like nothing is wrong.”

A pause. Then, “Done. And Laura? Your father would want you to fight.”

By the time I left the coffee shop, the rain had slowed to a mist. The city looked sharper, edges defined.

I had been broken open.

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