Dates, filings, requests, next steps.

I kept them in a binder on the dining table because the office still felt too public for the personal half of the wreckage.

Daniel tried to reach me twice through mutual acquaintances.

One couple we used to have dinner with called to say he was “in a difficult place” and that marriage required grace.

I thanked them for their concern and did not ask them to carry another message.

Grace is not the same thing as returning a man’s access to a company he tried to empty.