The money changed in the January. I know because I have looked at it since, in about four minutes, at the kitchen table, with my own online banking.
Four minutes. That is how long it took, afterwards, to see the whole of it.
He does our money. He has always done our money, since 2014, because he is better at it and because I did not want to and because it was one of the things I was glad not to have to carry.
And in the January of 2025 the money that comes into this house changed shape completely, and it has been possible for eleven months for me to see that in four minutes, and I did not look once.
Why I did not look.
Because of who I had decided he was.
I have been telling people for a year that my husband is a surgeon who never stops.
