Chapter 6 — Numbers Had Been My Career

I need to tell you who I had been, before I was a woman being humiliated at her own dinner table, because it is the reason the suitcases were packed.

Before the marriage, before the children, numbers had been my career.

I had worked as a risk analyst for a financial-services firm in Atlanta, and my entire job — the thing I was genuinely good at, the thing I loved — was studying patterns.

Probabilities.

Exposure.