POV: Yessica | EdinburghShe woke up knowing what day it was.Lewis was already in the kitchen when she came down. He did not say anything about it. She did not either. He made coffee, she fed Rose, Claire ate breakfast and talked about a project at school that required colored paper, and the morning moved through its sequence the way it always did.Both of them knew.Neither of them said it.***The session with Dr. Chen was at eleven.They sat in the two chairs and Dr. Chen looked at them and then said, without preamble: "It has been two weeks. Yessica, have you made a decision?""Yes," Yessica said.Lewis did not look at her. She noticed that — he was holding himself very still, not influencing the moment."I am staying," she said. "Not because everything is resolved. Not because I am certain. Because I am certain that I want to try from a real position instead of a performed one." She kept her voice even. "Two weeks ago I was managing. I was handling the house, the children, the l
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