hot meals because their schedule never aligned with standard serving hours, and she quietly reorganized her own shift preferences to accommodate them without anyone asking her to.
None of this registered back home as anything worth discussing. When Petra called to share that she’d made petty officer third class, her mother’s response had been a brief “That’s nice, honey” before pivoting immediately into an update about Ryan’s promotion at the marketing firm where he now worked. When Petra made second class two years later, the conversation lasted perhaps ninety seconds