Chapter One
From the opening pages
Every other book in this collection is about a single hard day — one date on the calendar, one moment to get through. This one is different. It’s about a goodbye that repeats, every week or every fortnight, for years.
That repetition changes what honesty has to look like. This book covers the drive home after drop-off, the specific silence that follows, the guilt that isn’t actually yours to carry, and the quieter work of building genuine rituals around the reunions, not just the departures.
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