She Assumed She Was Moving Into Our New Home. We Had Been Quietly Preparing for That Moment All Along

now, we never will.”

So we made a plan, and we kept it entirely to ourselves.

We did not correct Diane when she continued talking about moving in. We did not give her our address right away. We allowed her to fill in the gaps with her own assumptions while we quietly proceeded with what we had already decided weeks earlier.

The property she had heard continue reading …