“Yeah, it’s believable,” I say now. In truth, I do have trouble imagining the conversation where the manager of the woman who had a stillbirth tells her she’s going on probation, and the conversations with HR leading up to it. I can’t quite make a human scene out of it in my head. But I believe it. Partly because my own first thought on reading that part was, Well, how long post-stillbirth was she off her game? Are we talking three weeks, or three months? Straight to the place where my own skin as her boss might be at risk and I’d have to choose which one of us to sacrifice. “I was afraid
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