I checked the dates. Several of the “debts” Clara had supposedly incurred were dated to days when Clara was demonstrably elsewhere — at a doctor’s appointment, at a fabric supplier, times I could prove because Clara, meticulous Clara, had kept receipts and records in that same notebook, knowing she might someday need to prove where she’d been.
I CAME HOME FROM DEPL:OYMENT WITHOUT WARNING AND FROZE — MY WIFE’S HEAD WAS SHAVED, HER FACE BRUISED
