That mattered.
He never asked me to “move on.”
Never told me Joanna had nothing to do with our marriage.
Because by then he understood that Joanna wasn’t the problem.
The silence was.
I put the pendant into my jewelry box.
I haven’t worn it since.
Maybe someday I will.
Maybe I won’t.
For years, it represented our marriage to me.
Then suddenly it represented a story I hadn’t known I was carrying around my neck.
I needed time to decide whether knowing its full history changed what it meant.
I also thought about Joanna more than I expected.
At first, I resented her.
That embarrassed me.
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Eventually, that feeling changed.
I watched the tape again.
Alone this time.
I looked at her face instead of Daniel’s.
She was young.
