It was a good decision, made for good reasons.

It was also, I would spend a long time understanding, the exact decision she needed me to make.

Chapter 3 — Backing Away

I tried to help in the ways I knew how, which were the clumsy, practical ways of a man who fixes things because he cannot find the words.

I called every week.

I bought groceries and offered to drop them off.

I stood in department stores holding a little dress for Daisy or a toy truck for Mason, wondering if Thomas would have chosen the same ones.