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LiaI watched her for three days, sitting by myself in the park underneath an elm tree, beside an emp BeckyHer cell phone trilled as she straightened her back. The dog gave one sharp bark and trotted aw Ayinde“Well, your water’s definitely broken.” The young resident pulled off her rubber gloves with a Kelly“Okay, so there’s Mary, Barry, then me, Kelly, then Charlie, Maureen and Doreen—they’re twins—M LiaOn my first flight to Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I had the middle seat. The man sitting by Becky“There’s this woman in the park who’s always staring at me,” said Becky.“Whah?” asked Andrew, w Lia“So,” my mother asked me during my ninth week under her same-as-it-ever-was roof, “are you here t Ayinde“I wish you wouldn’t go,” Ayinde said, staring at Richard’s shoulders silhouetted in the light Becky“Sorry I’m late,” Becky whispered to Kelly, thumping into a seat in the hospital auditorium fiv KellyKelly Day sat at the desk in her high-rise apartment, looking through the floor-to-ceiling wind AyindeThe book that would change her baby’s life arrived the first week of July, when Julian was ele BeckyBecky peered over her belly at Dr. Mendlow as he examined her the next morning. “Anything doing Kelly“Okay,” Kelly called, as she walked into her apartment with baby Oliver in her arms and her hus Ayinde“Baby?”Ayinde opened her left eye. She was lying on her side, with her body curled around Juli Becky“Okay,” Becky said, yelling into the telephone to make herself heard over Ava’s wails. “What ki Kelly“How was your doctor’s appointment?” Steve asked, with his right hand on her knee.Kelly took a AyindeAyinde smoothed her jacket over the mushy area where her waist had once been and tried not to Becky“Hahyahhh.”Becky winced, holding the phone away from her ear. It was seven o’clock in the morni Lia“Get job” had been on my list, right after “get money” and “find place to live.” But when Becky o KellyLucky. If Kelly heard the word lucky one more time, she decided, she would have to murder someo Becky“Oopsies! Oopsies! Spit-up in aisle five!” Mimi trilled.Becky prayed, for what felt like the mi AyindeHer education had emphasized the classics—lots of Shakespeare, lots of Milton and Donne, the B Lia“Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye, babies,” Kelly sang, enthusiastically and slightly off-key. Her po KellyAt six A.M., a week after she’d told her friends the truth about her husband, Kelly lay in bed, BeckyThe war started innocently enough, with a package in the mail addressed, in Mimi’s scrawling ha Ayinde“Sorry I’m late,” said Dr. Melendez, hurrying into the exam room. She stopped at the edge of t Lia“Hi,” I said, smiling as I approached the two-top—an older couple, white-haired. Grandma and Gran KellyThe Wee Ones Music Class met in a big, historic church on Pine Street that had stained-glass re LiaMy mother got to Mas before I did, and when I arrived she was already sitting at the table, facin BeckyBecky sat up in bed and was hit with a wave of dizziness that sent her reeling back to the matt KellyThe doorbell rang at ten o’clock Friday morning, an hour after her husband had left, half an ho LiaSam had told me that I didn’t have to meet him at the airport. “It’s not a big deal. I can just t AyindeThree weeks after Ayinde and Richard had brought Julian home from the cardiologist’s office, C BeckyIn Becky and Andrew’s years of marriage and parenthood, Mimi Breslow Levy et al. had never sent KellyOn the twenty-third day of her separation, Kelly opened the mailbox to find two bills, an overd LiaI sat in the park with my mother’s blue suitcase and the lunch Sarah had packed at my feet. My fr
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