“What can I do?”
“It is exactly like that.”
He stayed there for another second, still kneeling, until the posture itself became humiliating. Then he stood.
“What can I do?”
I thought about it.
“You can tell the truth to every person you lied to. Not to win me back. Because it’s the truth.”
Over the next few months, he made the same correction to relatives and friends.
His first call was to his sister. Later Elaine told me he said, plainly, that I had never refused him. He had refused me and let the family believe otherwise.
Over the next few months, he made the same correction to relatives and friends. He admitted I had raised marriage more than once. He admitted he had let people blame me because it was easier than admitting the decision was his.
I still didn’t go back.
