“Then keep living differently,” I said.

He nodded.

It was the most useful answer I could give him.

PART 25

Before Selena moved away, she asked me to accompany her on one final visit to the house where she had grown up.

Gavin still lived there.

The guest room was a guest room again, with a neatly made bed and a lamp on the bedside table.

The whiteboard was at the community center, and there was no evidence of the frantic two weeks when I had first assembled the Career Club.