I would not have survived that.

That is the honest answer and it took me two years of paying somebody to arrive at it.

I am a person who cannot leave a number unexplained.

It is the best thing about me and it is the reason my marriage ended the way it did rather than quietly, and those are the same fact.

Part Fourteen: Eleven Thirty at Night

He called nine months after the party, at 11:34 on a Tuesday night, from a number I did not have.