Olivia comes into the world healthy and perfect, a wailing baby with blonde fuzz on her head and bleary blue eyes. The symptoms start at four months, the diagnosis comes in at five, and the prognosis is devastating.
Dan’s daughter is there and then gone again so very abruptly. He thought he knew loss when Milo was taken from him but this is something else altogether. There is an awful ache in his chest for the longest time and he thinks Serena might blame him. She has an affair.
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He forgives Serena for sleeping with Ben’s soccer coach. She cries when he confronts her and he tries to dismiss it all as grief. He puts his arms around her and her hands lift to his shoulders but she doesn’t curl against him like she used to. He tells her that she’s sorry and all she says is don’tSerena cooks dinner every night and repaints three rooms in their house. She buys new furniture with money from her inheritance. She sleeps curled up at the very edge of their bed, far away from him. Dan can’t
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Olivia comes into the world healthy and perfect, a wailing baby with blonde fuzz on her head and bleary blue eyes. The symptoms start at four months, the diagnosis comes in at five, and the prognosis is devastating.
Dan’s daughter is there and then gone again so very abruptly. He thought he knew loss when Milo was taken from him but this is something else altogether. There is an awful ache in his chest for the longest time and he thinks Serena might blame him. She has an affair.
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He forgives Serena for sleeping with Ben’s soccer coach. She cries when he confronts her and he tries to dismiss it all as grief. He puts his arms around her and her hands lift to his shoulders but she doesn’t curl against him like she used to. He tells her that she’s sorry and all she says is don’tSerena cooks dinner every night and repaints three rooms in their house. She buys new furniture with money from her inheritance. She sleeps curled up at the very edge of their bed, far away from him. Dan can’t ( ... )
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