And How Many Are in Your Family?

Five, I reply to the caller on the other end of the phone. After hanging up, I start to cry. At first, not knowing why. There is something SO very wrong with that answer. The real answer should have been, and always will be, one more than is here. Always. It breaks my heart to stumble upon incidents like this, never knowing when and where they will happen. I know they will, it just still sucks to have it happen.