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God hadn’t saved her that evening after her shift, when every muscle in her body burned and she’d begged Lonnie to leave her alone. He hadn’t answered when she’d prayed the pregnancy wouldn’t last, that perhaps He might spare her one more burden.
She remembered kneeling beside the bed months later, her growing stomach pushed against the mattress with a baby as healthy as could be inside. She had stayed there for hours, begging to understand why Lonnie couldn’t have waited just one more day.
or: after the birth of her second son, joyce is left alone with complicated feelings about her husband, lonnie, and the unfulfilling life she’s been meant to endure