“Promotions.”
Pause.
“Awards.”
Pause.
“Volunteer events.”
Pause.
“Recognition dinners.”
Long pause.
“I never saw you.”
Roy stared at the floor.
The silence became painful.
Then Mr. Whitaker delivered the sentence everyone would remember.
“The tragedy isn’t that you’re divorcing a remarkable woman.”
He glanced toward me.
“The tragedy is that you apparently never noticed she was remarkable.”
The room exploded.
