When Wren asked whether he knew how to build a treehouse, I said I didn’t know.

When Jude asked why he wasn’t in our pictures, I said he hadn’t been part of our daily life.

We could talk more as they grew.

That spring Edward invited us to a small garden fundraiser, where he introduced me to a woman named Celia Park, a lawyer who sometimes worked with Nadia.

We spoke about the children, business, and how strange it felt to build a new life while an old one remained unresolved.

“Unresolved doesn’t mean unfinished,” she said.