My wife is paralyzed, so I haven’t been inti:mate with her for four months. Out of deep frustration, I left her alone for ten days to go on a date with the younger sister of my colleague. And then… the unexpected happened.

someone who chose to leave.” Beneath that, in handwriting that looked as if it had cost her something to keep steady, she wrote the line that finally split me open: “There are things worse than paralysis. Being invisible is one of them.”

The letter slipped from my hand and fluttered to the floor. For the first time in ten days, the smell of Christina’s continue reading …