The Forgetting

by Hannah Beckerman

There is an earnestness in the way he speaks but also a trace of something else: a hint of doubt, like the faint remnant of an erased pencil mark,

‘My parents always warned me: be careful who you have kids with. Mortgages, joint bank accounts, marriages – you can extricate yourself from all of it. But have a child with someone and you’re linked to them for the rest of your life.’