anyway, and it cost you your life as much as mine.”
I want that on the record because people keep telling me it was selfless.
It was not. It was a twenty-year-old boy protecting his own marriage from himself, and I was the thing that got moved out of the way.
And the ring box, which I have not described and which was the first thing I actually touched.
It is navy, with a hinge that has gone, so it does not stay shut.
Inside the lid, on the silk, somebody has written in biro — very small, very neatly, and not by Gil, whose handwriting was appalling at twenty and appalling at sixty.
***A.H. 1994.***
Adele found the box, and she read nine birthday cards, and then she opened the ring box that was in there with them, and she put her own initials and the year inside the
