I returned home unannounced after four years in Canada and found my wife with a shaved head, terribly thin and struggling alone in the backyard

Foreign currency and currency exchange

I wanted to blame Vivian.

I wanted to blame Derek.

And blamed them.

But there was another person who was also to blame.

To myself.

I had accepted every “I’m okay.”

Every excuse about why your camera didn’t work.

Every phone call shorter.

I had been so focused on financially supporting my wife that I stopped paying attention to the woman I was supposedly holding.

The next morning, Clara woke up and whispered:

“Don’t fight with them for me.”

Pregnancy and Maternity

I looked at her.

“This is not just for you.”

It frowned.

I took his hand.

“It’s because they believed they could do this to you and then smile at me while spending the money I should keep you alive.”