know what to say to him.”
“That’s between you and him.”
She entered the living room.
I heard fragments.
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“Yes.”
“No.”
“She told you.”
A long pause.
Then her voice broke.
“No, David. Don’t you dare say that.”
More silence.
“Because I stood beside her coffin.”
I stopped packing.
Elaine began crying.
“Yes. Your daughter.”
Silence.
“No, I’m not lying.”
Then louder:
“Your wife called you fifty-one times!”
I heard her say, “No. You listen to me.”
I went upstairs.
Some conversations were no longer mine to participate in.
Twenty minutes later, Elaine found me folding Lily’s sweaters.
“He says he didn’t understand.”
I kept folding.
“He says he thought you were manipulating him into ending the trip.”
I placed another sweater in the box.
“He says you two had been fighting so much that he assumed—”
“Elaine.”
She
