White Christmas Pansies

Linda Hall

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White Christmas Pansies - Copyright 2011 by Linda Hall

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“I’ve decided to leave you after Christmas,” I said to my husband on a Saturday morning while I carefully spread newspapers on the card table in the guest bedroom. The words sounded so casual, so spur of the moment, as if I had just thought of them. But this was something I had been thinking about, praying about for quite a while. I had practiced over and over in my head, even: Nothing’s working. Just look at us. You’re never home. We barely speak, and when we do, we fight. I can’t live like this. Think of what we’re doing to the girls.