During the divorce, my wife kept the house. “Pick up your stuff by Friday.” I arrived at night unannounced

that had once been mine, the house where I had painted walls, refinished cabinets, built a crib, and marked my daughter’s height in pencil on the pantry frame.Now it belonged to my ex-wife by decree, by signatures, by the quiet bureaucratic violence of divorce. I had only come to collect the last boxes of my life before they were thrown out.

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