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She remembered the gray look on Dad’s face that night, early in his career, when he swung by the house for a quick dinner in the middle of his shift. He had just come from working a particularly gory accident scene and she had innocently served spaghetti; he could barely look at it and left after taking in nothing but coffee.

Like most wives of rookie cops, she had helped him through the sometimes painful and horrifying early days of his career, when everything was new and confusing and he was still building the emotional skills necessary to handle the job and make sense of all that he saw and experienced. She would listen to the stories of what he had seen and done during his shift, giving him someone to lean on when he needed it and easing the burden by sharing the pain. She heard about the kids thrown from cars as they rolled over, about the false reassurances he had to give to people about those he knew wouldn’t make it, and all the other things that give cops nightmares long after they’re over. She was relieved that he didn’t share these stories often anymore, didn’t need to, but she remembered them like she had been there herself, the details vivid in her mind.