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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 79: The Other Shoe
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The other shoe dropped about a month after the court, and for a while I misread it completely.
Kabir changed. Not dramatically, not all at once, but unmistakably: the boy who had been slowly unclenching all year began, in the settled weeks after the adoption, to clench again. He went quiet in a new way, a heavy way. He slept badly, was up in the night, came to breakfast grey and short-tempered. He was prickly over nothing, then flat, then prickly again. He cried once, hard, over a dropped…
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