And I am not going to burn a photograph of myself looking lovely because of what he was doing while I was doing it.”

Part Thirty-Three: A Conference Room on Clematis Street

The divorce was finalized on the second of April.

It took nine weeks to negotiate and then five months to get through a court that was, at that point, running a backlog, and the final hearing lasted four minutes and I did not have to attend it.

What I did attend was the signing, in a conference room on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach, on a Tuesday afternoon in the January, with four lawyers in the room and a paralegal and a notary.

I did not have to be in the same room as him.