“Then I met the people who keep it running.”

He laughed.

It was the first uncomplicated laugh I’d heard from a stranger in weeks.

On the train home I wrote a note to myself: Ask questions.

Check documents.

Don’t let embarrassment make decisions for you.

It applied to the tower, and to marriage, and perhaps to everything else.

Grant texted during the ride asking whether I planned to sell the building and give him a settlement.