‘It’s hard to decipher what has sentimental value and what doesn’t after spending that much of your life with someone. At first, everything is a piece of them – there isn’t a pair of trousers that doesn’t remind you of a trip you took together or of a silly thing they did. But that fades, I suppose, and you realise they’re just things, things that couldn’t begin to capture the magnitude of that person and all you loved about them.’
