You are married to me.

There is no divorce filed in any county in this state.

So the plan required one of the two of us to stop existing on paper.

What was the plan?”

Six minutes.

That is where it ended, at about five and a half, and the last thing he said was my name, and I put the telephone face-down on a kitchen counter in my sister’s house and stood there with both hands on the counter for a while.