The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

day managing other people’s failures and resented every extra minute added to it.

I stepped inside, water running from my coat onto the tile.

“I’m Lena Hail,” I said. “I think there’s been a serious mistake. I am not a mother. I do not have a child.”

She did not look surprised.

She looked sad.

Then angry.

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