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

had to survive.

Epilogue: After

She went back to the apartment. Not to Richard’s house, and not, eventually, to the apartment she had left either — it had been relet while she was gone — but to a different apartment, two bedrooms again, in a building where the elevator worked and the upstairs neighbor had no dog.

She had less than she had had in the house.continue reading …