So we did not.

For twenty-six months I lived in that house for the first nine of them and then in an apartment near Leo’s school, and we were in the same rooms constantly, and there was a thing in every one of those rooms that neither of us referred to for two years and one month.

I moved out in the June.

He did not try to stop me.

He said one thing about it, which was, “Do you have a bed for Nora,” and when I said not yet he did not offer to buy one; he asked whether I wanted help looking.