He Erased His Wife’s Past Until Her Coat Came Off

hook.

I folded it carefully.

The embroidered name was worn but still readable.

Nora Reyes.

Co-Founder.

Outside, the air was cold enough to make me reach for my coat.

I slipped my right arm into one sleeve, then adjusted the other around my prosthesis.

Four years earlier, I had worn coats to hide what happened to me.

In court, I had removed one because I was finished being hidden.

That evening, I wore it for a much simpler reason.

It was cold, I was going home, and there was no one left whose permission I needed to be seen.

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