CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
KATE
We’re finally able to get out of our neighborhood, and we’re on our way to Rudy’s to pick up the kids, when you change everything. Neither of us is sure where to go from here. That much is clear. Our neighborhood is swarming with cops and news crews, and neither of us wants to address what’s going on. So we don’t talk about it, not really. We’re numbed out, hollow, empty. We’re what you are when you’ve given your all and you’re not sure what’s left to give. We love each other, sure, but there’s a deeper unspoken question that hangs in the air between us: Is love enough? It was back there in our bathroom and it is for now. It’s clear, though, that some things bring you together and others tear you apart, and what comes next is often anyone’s guess.
“I think we sho
