That was the full list of things I could still call mine.
My name is Poppy, and at the time, I was 31 years old.
I had spent years believing my life was stable.
Then, in less than a month, my husband moved out, the bills became mine, and every plan I had made for the future disappeared.
Trixie was too young to understand most of it.
She only knew that her father no longer slept in our house and that we were packing her clothes into cardboard boxes.
« Are we going somewhere fun? » she asked as she held up a purple sweater.
I forced a smile.
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