Marriage, too, is a threshold between Before and After. We have many of these, every day, which we do not recognize. The threshold is not the question. There will always be Befores and Afters. The question is: what do you do after you cross that threshold?” I wiped under my eyes with the thumb of my glove, and it came away dark with mascara. “You live. You remember. This is what our people have always done.”
