“I’m learning not to pretend everything is repaired simply because the crisis ended.”

He nodded.

“That also sounds like you.”

The boys came running back carrying lemonade.

“Dad!”

“Mom!”

And the conversation ended.

Exactly where it should.

EPILOGUE — THE THING I ACTUALLY WON

People who heard about our divorce sometimes assumed the most important revelation was that I owned seventy-four percent of Pembroke Freight Systems.