When My Husband Pocket-Dialed Me

garden was blooming, bright and stubborn. My mother had designed it years before she died, back when my parents still hosted loud summer barbecues and she insisted every outdoor table needed fresh flowers.

Dad placed the tulips between us.

“Your mother would be proud of you,” he said.

I shook my head.

“I don’t feel strong.”

He looked at me carefully.

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