beware of your enemies, but above all beware of your enemies’ sons, for they will one day rule you.

Moving boxes. Things were always coming apart at the seams, was the kind of love they had snd suffered through, especially at the beginning. The suffering of love was easier to withstand than the work of marriage. Romantic suffering. Tiresome work. It was thought that newspapers would suffice but on a whim the expensive bubble wrap was ordered and added to the bill that the eponymous two guys and a van came calling for their fee. Which is when it hit home, in what her gym teacher - a living caricature (lesbian, softball) who proved how little caricature might capture a round character whose complications were in the flesh - called a teachable moment. She had moved out, and the move had cost her more than she knew. Could have ever possibly known. It’s not ideology or a thrumming internally coherent plot. It’s just a hum drum devastation of the life they had lived, the life-as-they-knew-it gone and become a conflagration across her history.