She believes this is true. If she’s gone, Manny will find someone else. A younger woman, perhaps, who will love him truly, and he deserves this kind of love, just as she does, and it will be easier if she is gone. Essy is young, she will forget quickly. Better now than later, like Nipa said. So she will tell him one night after their daughter is in bed and he is sitting in the kitchen, relaxed, shelling peanuts and watching
