My wife is paralyzed, so I haven’t been inti:mate with her for four months. Out of deep frustration, I left her alone for ten days to go on a date with the younger sister of my colleague. And then… the unexpected happened.

“if you’re reading this, it means you came back. I don’t know from where, and I won’t ask.”

I sat down hard on the edge of the bed, the paper blurring in my hands. “I waited for you every day,” she wrote. “I counted the hours. I told myself you’d walk through that door any minute. After the fifth day, I understood.”

The room tilted. My chest felt hollow continue reading …