“Twice in seven years?”

And Jessi looked at me and said the sentence that I deserved and that I have not stopped hearing.

“Ivan, I called you eleven times in three days in September and you didn’t answer once.

I wrote you an explanation about Charlotte within an hour and you told me not to insult you.

I drove to your mother’s house on a Sunday and she stood in the doorway and told me you’d said you didn’t want to see me.

“By November I had a divorce decree and no phone number.