And that same afternoon, you began moving your things into my house.

Forty-eight hours after I buried my child, you moved into his father’s bed.

And then you came up here, into my son’s room, and you started packing his life away into boxes to make room for yours.”

“I didn’t mean to hurt you,” she wept.

“Clara, I swear, I never meant—”

“There is no universe,” I said, “in which any part of what you did was not intended to hurt me.