“Anyway, Max started teaching and he just took to it. He loved being around the students. As I said, by now he was in his mid to late thirties and starting to feel like he was going over the hill. He worked at his doctoral thesis for a couple more years before it was accepted. I think Roger missed having him at work but Paula was still there and they all stayed fairly close.”
“Max never married Paula. No kids.”
“No.”
“I wonder what kept them together?”
Angela shrugged. “Never made sense to me. I’d go over to visit them and they’d just, you know, be there. It wasn’t like they hated each other, they were always kind of happy and nice, but it wasn’t like they had a lot of visible affection for each other. Max was a restless kind of guy, he wanted to do stuff. She struck me as wanting to s
