“How’s Nan?” Michael asks. He always liked Ken’s wife. “She’s doing as well as can be expected. The nurses and doctors at the new facility are first-rate. She even recognized me on my last visit.” Nan’s dementia has gotten much worse since Michael left. He sometimes wonders if the three men are being punished for their roles in a pointless war: his own wife’s cancer, Mac’s wife’s stroke, and Nan’s dementia. He shakes it off.
