Setting the scene…
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Her heavy secret
A recently disabled Chris plays the role of housewife, cooking, cleaning and shopping for her husband and two grown children. To outsiders she looks like a happy,full of life woman with a bubbling personality, but deep inside she carries a…
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…She looked at it for a long moment, at the two young people laughing on a beach, so full of hope and possibility. Then she placed it back in the box, closed the lid, and set it on the shelf. Outside, the robin had returned. It perched on the fence, watching her through the window, its head tilted in that curious way of birds. Chris pressed her hand to the glass, and for a moment, she imagined she could feel the warmth of the sun, the salt of the sea, the press of a hand in hers. Then she let her hand fall, and the robin flew away. The evening settled around her like a quiet promise, and somewhere in the distance, a song she hadn't heard in years began to play.