At The Custody Hearing, My Ex-Husband’s Attorney Pointed At My Son’s Clothes And Said, “She Can’t Even Afford Clean Clothes For Her Kid.” Judge Elwood Nodded, And For A…

sunset with his hand tucked under his cheek.

I sat on the floor beside him, watching his chest rise and fall.

My mother stood in the kitchen doorway. “You need to sleep.”

“I know.”

“You won.”

I looked at Crew. “He shouldn’t have had to.”

“No,” she said. “But he did because he is yours.”

Later, after Crew was in bed, I took the gray shirt from the courthouse continue reading …