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We met him on a Saturday morning, in a room at the children's home that had been set aside for exactly this kind of thing, a room whose entire furnishing announced its purpose — a low table, some toys chosen by a committee, two chairs for the adults and a smaller one that nobody sat in, and a woman from the home who would stay throughout, kindly, in the corner, so that nothing about it could pretend to be natural. I had not understood, until we were standing outside the door, how much would be riding on an hour that was structurally incapable of going well, and I made myself, in the corridor, take the want down out of my face, because the one thing I knew for certain about the boy on the other side of the door was that he had been looked at by hopeful adults before, and that our hope,...
My Playful Wife is a serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.