And Teresa told me one more thing about it, which she said he used to say and which she imitated, and which I did not find funny at all.

She said he used to tell people he had been to more weddings than anybody in the state of Minnesota and had never had an anniversary.

Part Twenty: What She Would Not Tell Me

I asked her, at the table, with the binders open, the question I had not asked him on a pavement in December.

I said, “Was he ever married before?”

And Teresa closed the book she had her hand on and looked at the table.