At My Wedding to a Man 40 Years Older Than Me, an Old Woman Warned Me to Check His Desk Drawer — Before It Was Too Late

Part One: Before Richard

The thing about exhaustion is that it changes your vision.

Not dramatically — not the way illness or grief changes it, with sudden, vertiginous shifts. It changes it slowly, incrementally, the way a room dims as the afternoon advances, so gradually that you don’t notice until you reach for a light continue reading …