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I thought I was coming home to a cheating wife.  Instead, I walked into a war.  Six months overseas had taught me to recognize danger in silence, in still rooms, in eyes that refused to meet mine. But nothing I had faced in uniform prepared me for the look on my wife’s face the night I stepped back into our home in Charleston, South Carolina.  Emma did not run into my arms.  She did not cry, laugh, or whisper that she had missed me.  She simply stood in the kitchen, thinner than I remembered, pale beneath the soft overhead light, her hands hidden inside the sleeves of her sweater like she was trying to disappear inside herself.  “Welcome home, Ethan,” she said quietly.