My father sitting at the dining table.

Friends laughing on the patio.

Julian cooking terribly.

A marriage is not one morning.

That truth did not make staying possible.

It simply made leaving sadder.

I decided to sell.

PART 24 — JULIAN DOES NOT BECOME PENNILESS

Julian’s finances deteriorated.

But I refuse to tell the story as though a divorce judge magically reduced him to nothing.