At 3:17 A.M., Police Told Me My Husband Was Dead—But He Was Sleeping Beside Me
Someone else lived there.
Maybe a couple.
Maybe a family.
Maybe someone who had no idea what happened in unit 31B years earlier.
Good.
Homes should be allowed to forget us.
I looked at the building and thought about the woman who stood in the morgue holding a wedding ring while her husband stood behind her.
She believed the question was: