My parents refused to care for my younger kids while I tended to my oldest with leukemia; I called my ex-husband, but he said: “You’re just a poor writer, deal with it”

but need to ask anyway.

Cora is back in the hospital for a few weeks of treatment. If anyone can take Theo and Wyatt even one afternoon, it would help more than I can say.

I watched the word appear beneath it.

Delivered.

Then later:

Read.

My mother had read it.

My father had read it.

My aunt in Ohio had read it.

Nobody typed anything.

No three dancing dots.

No reply.

What they did do that afternoon was continue using their phones everywhere else.

My mother liked a cousin’s