Luca had residence in valuable things — the house, the marriage, the lifestyle — and mistook his proximity to worth for the possession of it.

I had the worth itself, the thing that made the valuable things in the first place.

He could take the receipts.

He could never take the printer.

And a woman who can build an estate once can build a life anywhere, in a craftsman house in Fort Collins as easily as in a mansion in Boulder, because the estate was never the achievement.

She was.