I have a physical ache in my chest, as if my heart is clinically breaking. That’s an actual thing that I read about. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Broken heart syndrome. It happens to a lot of widows. Widows. Old women in black, wailing. Gray-haired ladies on their own at the nursing home. Women from the two world wars. Not me. Not at thirty-eight. Not with a three-year-old.
