Two people expecting a daughter.
Still married.
Still uncertain.
Still deciding whether they could rebuild what had been damaged.
Afterward, we drank hot chocolate from paper cups.
Nick asked about my next shift.
When I told him Elaine would drive me home, he accepted it without argument.
That evening, Frank sent me a candid photograph he’d taken.
I was standing in my green dress while Elaine held my coat open behind me.
I saved it separately from the professional pictures.
It became one of my favorites.
The next afternoon, Nick
