"I don't want something different," I said, and I meant it. And not just about the ring, but about our twenty-one years of marriage. The people we'd made. The life we'd shaped together, exactly the life I wanted. I had no reason to suspect, standing there, that the very next day, I would begin to act not as if I wanted to give that life away, but as if I wanted something different to go along with it. A"