He was not a decent husband.

Both of those are apparently possible in one man, and I spent about two years being angry that the world is arranged so untidily.

We are polite.

We stand near each other at concerts and graduations.

Four years ago at Nina’s middle school thing he said, out of nowhere, in a gym, “I know what I did,” and I said, “I know you do,” and we went back to watching, and that is the entire extent of the reckoning I have ever received and, at this point, the entire extent of what I want.

Chloe moved to Syracuse.