Brave Face

 Entry 1   11:57 a.m.

We are out. This is a push. Sitting in a restaurant for brunch, then to see thr latest Marvel movie. The girls are doing well. Leiney is sad, but normal, understandably sad. Abby says nothing when anyone evinces sorrow. She is sad, to be sure, but so accustomed to

The girls comforting one another.
stuffing her feelings down she doesn't express it.

Yesterday, while installing software on Abby's desktop on the shared family computer, I stumbled upon a half-naked picture of el pinchè. Abby didn't see it, and then I spent the next hour scouring the computer for any other detritus.  I imagine the picture arrived on Abby's desktop through either machinations of Jenny or downright error.  Abby hadn't used the desktop since 2018, when we bought her a laptop.  The picture was date stamped August 5, 2018, and there was a companion picture of Jenny Photoshopped to the extreme. She was so pretty, it tells one a lot when she expends such energy.

I am a complete and utter mess.  Just am.  I hate this.

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