She quietly and tenderly shook her head. No. I glided closer, now inches away, and said coldly and quietly, “Move.” What she did next, to this day, decades later, makes my head spin. She put her hand on my heart and said, “I know the men who have brought you heartache and humiliated you. I know what it has cost you. And I know that is not what you want to do to your son.” I don’t know why my heart softened then and not during a hundred times of other failures, but I began to cry. What I expected was my wife’s defensive anger to protect our son from his angry father. Instead, I experienced the
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