up.
Rachel had stopped shouting.
Jason stood beside her without speaking.
They looked like strangers who had finally realized they had nothing left to blame except each other.
Then I drove away.
When I arrived home, my daughters were sitting at the kitchen table with my mother.
They were coloring pictures, laughing every time one of them reached across the table to steal the other’s crayon.
One of them saw me first.
“Daddy!”
They both jumped down and ran toward me.
I knelt carefully as they wrapped their arms around