Both things are true. That’s the thing nobody tells you about your children. Both things are always true.
I asked him one question.
“Danny. Whose idea was the note?”
And he looked at the ground for a long time and said: “Hers. But I read it before we left.”
He read it. He read the words there’s soup in the freezer and he picked up a suitcase and got in the car.
What Happened Over the Next Eleven Months, Which Is Entirely Boring and Entirely Final
They did not lose the house. They came close. They sold the SUV in January and Rebecca went back to work full-time in February for the first time in nine years, and they’re on a repayment plan with that credit line.
