Three days later, I came downstairs and found her suitcase gone. Her coat was gone too. The front door was unlocked.
She had left without saying goodbye to our daughters. Daughtergift ideas
Not once.
I will never pretend raising twins alone was easy.
I was twenty-nine, working full-time, learning how to warm bottles, change diapers, survive sleepless nights, and hold two crying babies when I only had two arms.
My mother helped for the first few weeks. My sister took the girls on some weekends so I could sleep.
But most nights, it was just me.
Me and two little girls who needed everything.
As they grew, the hard moments changed.
Fevers.