Year four. Emily stopped going to a book group she’d been in since college.

When Margaret asked, she said the drive was too far.

Year six. Emily started saying “we’ll see” about things she used to just decide.

Margaret noticed it once, at a lunch, in the context of a work trip to Portland, and did not think about it again for eleven years.

Year seven. Nathan began coming along to things he had never come to before.

The dentist.