The morning Brittany left for Napa started like every other morning in the six years since the accident, which is to say it started with the particular careful choreography our household had developed around Noah\u2019s needs, around schedules and medications and the management of a life organized by what he could not do. She kissed him on the forehead and rolled her suitcase behind her and smiled at me from the doorway in the way she smiled when she wanted you to see a woman who had earned the right to three days away, which was a smile I had always accepted at face value because I had always believed we were telling the same story about our lives.\u201cYou boys survive without me,\u201d she said.I lifted my coffee. \u201cWe\u2019ll try not to destroy the house.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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