My Four-Year-Old Called Grandpa After My Husband Broke My Leg

smiled faintly.

The next day, workers removed it.

Patricia would have called that dramatic.

Maybe it was.

I did not care.

I replaced it with a long wooden table, warm and imperfect, big enough for crayons, pancakes, flowers, homework, coffee mugs, elbows, and life.

No throne.

No sharp marble edge.

No place for Daniel to stand above me.

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