“Honestly, Margaret, you can’t even do the one thing you’re supposed to do!”
For the first time, I didn’t apologize.
I simply looked at him and smiled.
After he left for work, I opened the bedroom closet and took out the old blue suitcase I hadn’t used in seventeen years.
I packed my clothes, picked up my handbag, and walked toward the front door.
But before leaving, I placed something on the kitchen table.
Something I’d kept hidden from Robert for twenty-three years.
And when he came home that evening and finally saw what I’d left behind, he called me thirty-seven times.
His last voicemail contained just six trembling words:
“Margaret, please tell me this isn’t true.”
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My name is Margaret. I’m 60 years old, and I’ve beenmarried to my husband, Robert, for 38 years.