I told him that I’d woken up thinking about him, and everything he had been through in the past five years. I told him that I could see what he didn’t: that he had kept his broken world together for his children, and that it was harder than it looked. I told him I was sorry he had been betrayed and broken, and that I was happy to be a person who benefited from his pain. Here is a notebook, I explained, I think you should write it all down, so you can look back and see what I see. I had these items couriered
