The morning after Ben left, Anna found a green pepper in the fridge and began to cry. She didn't even like green peppers. For nearly two years she had been buying them because he liked them in everything, and now here was one sitting in the vegetable drawer as though the next week of her life was still going to happen as planned. She shut the fridge. Opened it again. Took out the milk. There were practical things to do. People apparently continued to need tea after conversati
