Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane

winters that would cut the face off a person,

“The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don’t know what they’re doing any better than kids do. That’s the truth.”

Marriage is long. All the seams get tested.”

She’s the person who made him. She’s always going to matter.”

She’d learned that the beginning of one’s life mattered the most, that life was top-heavy in that way.

And while he lightened her burden, he felt he’d lightened his, too.