Family Drama · fiction
The Child Beyond the Empty Chair
For eighteen years, I had learned how to live with an empty chair that no one else could see. It followed me through grocery stores and school concerts, through Christmas mornings and family photographs, through every birthday cake I baked for my sons. It sat beside me whenever Caleb and I watched Ethan and...
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- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
- Fiction status
- fiction
- Editorial responsibility
- My Life Story Editorial
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