I did not know about any of it.

I only knew that a woman who really wanted to fix something would get on a plane, and that mine apparently had not.

Part Four: The Divorce

She filed in the first week of October.

I have read the file since — all of it, in a lawyer’s office, four years later, which was one of the harder afternoons of my life — and I want to record what is actually in it, because the version I carried around for seven years was not accurate.

The petition is a standard no-fault petition.