She was very smart and had gone into commercial real estate, and had spent fifteen years always one deal away, working for men who took her clients.

There had been a long engagement that ended in 2019 in a way she never fully explained.

She was thirty-nine when the twins were born.

She had, I think, a genuine and constant terror of ending up with nothing to show, and I did not take it seriously enough, because from where I was standing she was funny and beautiful and everybody liked her, and I had grown used to being the one with the problem.

Three things about Michelle Rasmussen that I have not been able to stop thinking about.