He was easy.

He was not a large personality.

He asked questions and remembered the answers, which is rarer than it should be.

He was good with my mother, who is difficult, and excellent with my sister’s children, and he could cook exactly four things and did all four of them well.

We married on the ninth of October 2021, at the courthouse in West Palm Beach, with eleven people, because I did not want a wedding and he said he did not either.

I have thought about that sentence rather a lot since.