Stolen Strawberries

Summary

The doctors said I’d never really grow up — that my mind would stay like a child’s.

But I knew my husband Joshua was the best person in the whole world.

He’d ruffle my hair, call me his “silly girl,” and help me glue my crooked art projects.

Then he said he had to be a doctor far, far away — in a war zone. He promised to video call on my birthday.

I waited and waited. Then a man in uniform gave me Joshua’s wet phone. “There was fighting… He’s a star now.”

After he became a star, everyone called me a hero’s wife.