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Fiction

Freedom & Responsibility

Cora Cruz finds that sometimes you have to take both.

That night the children had to be given dinner, bathed, and put to bed all alone by Dad, such a rare thing they weren’t sure what to make of it. Mom was busy learning the difficult lesson that you’re only ever as smart as the person you’re speaking with.

Late train home, red wine headache already in her temples, she anticipates Dad’s subtle reproaches, the slight resentful distancing that advertises his jealousy. She will call him on it. She will defend herself.

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