“Kevin?, is that you?

“Oh hey there Crimson,”

“Andy honey , this is my ex husband Kevin Dupree, can you please go ahead with the children, I’ll see you at home, I want to catch up with him”

“Can I buy you a cup of coffee Kevin?

“ You look like you’re living in your car, and you look like shit, what happened to you Kevin?”

“A lot has happened since I divorced you Crim, first off let me apologize to you for gaslighting you about your inability to have children, and giving you those estrogen blockers, I crushed them and put them in the smoothies I made you every morning, I’m so sorry you trusted my word as a doctor and a husband, I wasn’t ready to have children and I handled it terribly, motherhood really suits you and you were right,selling those fake doctor’s reports finally caught up to me I got caught, was reported to the board and I lost my license to practice medicine, Sheila left me and I lost the house. So yeah I’m living in my car at the walmart”

I looked at him, so you did give me those pills like the other doctor said,and I shook my head “I forgive you Kevin, as you can see Andy and I found each other and I’ve never been the same “.

As we sat across from each other and drank our coffees, I looked at this man, a once respectable and handsome doctor, now looking raggedy and living in his car, a man whom I had pledged my life to in front of God, how happy we were at the beginning of our marriage and how it all ended and I smiled because it someone ended in praise for me, he didn’t get so lucky. I got a second chance at love and life.




In my car ride back home, I began to reminisce about my previous life.

I met Kevin whilst shopping at Whole Foods, I was deciding whether I wanted to buy a carrot or some cabbage. He said he had approached me because it looked funny how I was so deep in thought over the choice between two vegetables. I was not looking for love when I met Kevin, I was second grade teacher, with no parents, no real social life outside work and no interest in dating. I knew that I wanted a family and definitely wanted children because I love children but I...