One year after my divorce, my ex-mother-in-law spotted me at the clinic with a smug grin. She told me her son made the right choice leaving me and was now raising a daughter with my former friend. I stayed calm, smiled, and said

and serious, staring at me as though she was trying to remember a dream.

I did not touch her at first.

I simply sat on the carpet and let her crawl toward me by herself.

When she reached my hand, she wrapped her tiny fingers around mine.

That was when I cried, quietly, for everything that had been taken and everything that still might be saved.

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