talk about bad influences in front of a judge, we can.”
He was quiet for a long time.
Then he hung up.
He never brought up custody again.
Max and Claire separated in October. Four months after the wedding.
I didn’t hear it from Max. I heard it from Jenny, who called me on a Sunday afternoon and said, “Are you sitting down?”
Apparently, things went downhill fast after the wedding. Claire started noticing things. The comments. The way Max looked at other women at the gym. The way he talked about her body when he thought she couldn’t hear. The way he’d say, “Babe, are you sure you want that?” when she reached for a second piece of bread.
“She told my mom,” Jenny said, “that she kept thinking about that card. The one with the mirror. She said she read it like twenty times. She said she realized
