Then I took my daughter to an urgent care clinic on Nicollet, which is the single most important thing I did in this entire story, and I did not know it at the time.

Part Two: Four Years in That Apartment

People ask how it got to that, and the answer is that it got there the way these things always do, which is in increments so small that no single one of them is worth ending a marriage over.

I married Mitchell Voss in 2019.

I was thirty-one.

He was thirty-three and he was funny and easy and slightly unserious, and after four years of a relationship with a man who took everything extremely seriously, unserious felt like weather clearing.