After An Affair, We Lived As Strangers For Eighteen Years—Until One Doctor’s Visit

the knowledge of two children: one never born because my husband made an impossible choice in a moment of crisis, one never truly ours because of a drunken mistake I don’t even remember making but whose consequences I’ll carry forever.

And a husband who loved a version of me that never actually existed, just as I loved a version of him I’d constructed continue reading …