The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

it and it came back positive, then my life was not merely damaged.

It was criminally rewritten.

If it came back negative, then the mystery deepened into something possibly worse.

I let go.

The envelope fell with a soft hollow thud.

Two weeks.

That’s what the website said.

Two weeks of pretending.

Two weeks of checking my email every 20 minutes.

Two weeks of continue reading …