One year after my divorce, I ran into my ex-husband in the pediatric wing of the hospital where I worked

day.

He has known since 2012 that I will always choose the version of myself that is least embarrassing to defend.

And the six years, which that man used as the weapon and which I am going to set out plainly, because the sentence he said in that corridor has a specific answer.

We were seen at a clinic in Brackwater between 2016 and 2022.

Everybody is tested. That is how it works.

There was no single cause found. Unexplained — which is a real category and which about one in