I knew my mother was hiding something the moment I came home two days early and found a pair of men’s sneakers beside the kitchen door. What I didn’t expect was to recognize them—or the twenty-two-year-old man wearing them. “Evan and I are together,” my mother said, standing between me and a boy who had sat three desks behind me in high school. I looked at her, then at him, picked up my suitcase, and made the first decision that would eventually cost us both more than either of us understood.
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