“Then the records should still show who approved the work and why,” Simon answered.

“Incompetence is an explanation to investigate, not a magic eraser.”

At ten, Elaine forwarded me a certified letter from Dennis’s new divorce attorney.

He sought to characterize practically everything we owned as his separate property, including the condo purchased six years into our marriage and the retirement funds he had accumulated while I handled our household.

I felt physically sick reading the numbers.

For sixteen years he’d told me that keeping our accounts in his name didn’t matter because everything was ours.