My Husband Took His New Bride Overseas Until He Came Home And Found The House Gone

of all that disturbed earth.

My father would have had an opinion about that. He would have sat across from me at a kitchen table and talked it through for an hour, asking questions until I figured out my own answer. He was good at that.

He was also, it turns out, very good at knowing when to leave someone a door.

I think about him sometimes, signing that continue reading …