The Divorce Papers Arrived Three Days After My Numbers Finally Matched

It wasn’t a polite laugh.

It came out loud and surprised, the way a man laughs when he finds a twenty in an old coat.

“Nineteen years,” he said.

“You’ve been carrying that around for nineteen years.”

“I didn’t think of it as carrying.”

“Mrs.

Dunn, you just handed me a key.”

“I handed you a signature.”