Two Hours Before My Brain Surgery, My Husband Handed Me Divorce Papers and Said He’d Had a Child With My Best Friend — So I Signed

“And the downtown condo?”

I considered that for a moment, because it mattered to me how this was done, not only that it was done.

“Protect my assets,” I said.

“But I don’t want an illegal lock-out, Richard.

I don’t want him to have one true thing to say about me when this is over.

We do everything strictly by the book.