FRAMED FOR MURDER WHILE PREGNANT: NOW I'M THE MAFIA'S WIFE
"That's not nothing. That's everything."
He squeezed my hand and didn't say anything else, which was the right response.
We walked home through the cold, clear morning. It was enough. It was, in the most complete sense of the phrase, exactly enough.
That evening, after dinner, I went back to the private manuscript, the real one, the one that would never be published. I opened it to the section I had been working on for several weeks: the part about the ordinary aftermath. The slow, undramatic, poorly shaped experience of simply living with what happened, carrying it forward, incorporating it into who you are becoming rather than who you were before. The part that doesn't make it into the pub
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