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Kacie,

I can’t do this anyone I listened to you when you said things would be great They’re not great They suck I have no freedoet to see h Sorry

PS As a favor, I already paid the sitter and left you 100 Good luck

Zach

Good luck?

I stood into forceMy hands started shaking uncontrollably and htened as I sprinted to our bedrooers on his side As I pulled his e theround one by one, it hit me

He was gone

Really gone

How could he do this? How could he do this now, after three years? Our twin girls were turning one next week Didn’t he want to be here for that?

The bile started to rise up in my throat as I putthere just in ti ainst the bathroo my head in my hands

“Are you okay?” Christina, our babysitter, asked quietly as she appeared in the doorway

Without looking at up at her, I asked flatly, “Did he say anything to you?”

She sighed “No He just paid me and said he left a letter for you on the counter, to make sure you saw it”

A letter? He scribbled that bullshit on the back of a Lee Auto Parts receipt That could hardly be classified as a letter

I couldn’t believe it

Sure, we got pregnant much earlier than we should have and while it wasn’t planned, ereit work It certainly hadn’t been easy so far, but I thought that this was forever That ere forever I never iined he would leave us, and certainly not like this

Maybe I could stop hie his mind I jumped up off the bathrooht for the kitchen counter where I’d leftso badly, I could barely dial his number

One ring, two rings, three rings, voice mail

I dialed again

One ring, voice mail

He kneas calling He kneas calling and he was sendingon?

My knees felt weak and ed to make my way over to the kitchen table and sit down Christina followed h she looked like she would rather be anywhere else She hite as a sheet and nervously playing with the buttons on her sweater

“Go ho my lip so hard I tasted blood, but I didn’t want to break down in front of her

She let out a huge sigh as relief crossed her face “U for about an hour, so… if you need anything, call ht” She started to make her way out of the kitchen, but she stopped halfway and turned back towardto need me tomorrow?”

I let out a long breath that I had no idea I was even holding in