HE WALKED INTO his office and pretended to look at his phone because he needed a second to think. You couldn’t be alone in this hospital. There was nowhere to just sit and be. Even when you just wanted to zone out in the middle of your own office, everyone could see. Nobody told you how important it would be to constantly appear stable while you were getting a divorce, because everything you said and did would be more meaningful and poignant than you’d intended. Standing alone in the middle of your office, staring into the middle distance, was not a sign of stability.
