The Perfect Husband's Lie

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When my last IVF cycle failed, leaving me barren, it was Andrew who held me. He publicly defended me

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e told me a story about a violent mugging in Brooklyn, h

overed, he promised. She looked so fragile, so out of place in th

later, he

was pr

ration. "You know how much she wants a grandchild. Just unt

led fertility treatment, and I felt nothing but a cold, hol

as my

cradled in her arms, made her move. She came t

a swirling abstract form that held all the love my parents had for each other, and for me. They died in a

ely audible. "She said a fragment of it, worn as a

t behind her, h

iece. Your parents would understand. They

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ago. Molly was lacing my daily green smoothie with a slow-acting, hard-to-trac

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father's memory, my mother's legacy, for this wom

as pointless. He

rom the high-end art storage facility in Queens w

are trying to break into your unit! They're sa

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