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My twelve-year-old wandered into the kitchen while I was chopping vegetables. Watched me for a beat. Then said, almost to herself: You seem more relaxed. Like, in general. Compared to a few years ago.

She could see it from two feet away. I'd been too close to notice.

This is the season finale and the real version of how I got here. Not the one that opens with wisdom. The one that starts in a bathtub in September 2021, with a seven-year-old who just wanted to sleep, and a mother who couldn't stop, and a husband who heard the crying and said kids forget.

She didn't remember the bathtub. She noticed me in the kitchen at four o'clock.

That was all the evidence I needed.


Season 2 is coming—and it starts closer to home than you think.


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