YVONNE —

It was on Tuesday morning when I woke up from sleep. As I had done yesterday, I headed directly into Amanda's room, even without rinsing my face or brushing my teeth.

Today was the day when we lied to the kids that Conan, their dad, would arrive in the city.

Meanwhile, we had secretly moved out yesterday evening and had managed to bribe a young man who had the same masculinity as Conan to accept wearing a mask of Conan just so we could make the children believe their father had truly arrived in the city.

In honesty, it was not an easy search because finding someone with...