I married my school sweethea.rt, but on our first wedding anniversary, I overheard him say, “I’ve been fooling her since school. Tonight I’ll finally do what I planned.”

Everyone laughed. I did, too. I’m good at laughing.

There were other things I was good at ignoring, or at least that’s what I told myself.

I laughed too loudly to cover the ache.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, a quiet list was writing itself.