I telephoned Greta and I could not get through a sentence.

And what my sister said, who is three years older than me and a veterinary nurse and not remotely sentimental, was:

“Hannah.

Stop.

Before you decide anything about him — do you actually owe it?

Do you know that you owe it, or is that a thing a company in Iowa has told you?”

Part Twenty-Eight: What a Spouse Actually Is

Here is what I did not know on the twelfth of December when I signed three documents in eleven minutes, and what almost nobody knows, and what I would very much like everybody reading this to know.