I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

packing permanently and you know it, a combination of precision and grief that I had not anticipated. Some things I had not thought of as mine until I was holding them and understood I was not going to leave them.

By noon I had emptied every drawer and shelf that was mine, every cabinet in the bathroom, every section of the closet that held my clothes continue reading …