Elena laughed. It was a real laugh, not the polite one she used with her book club or the brisk one she used with her real estate clients. “They’re dramatic,” she said. “It’s not you. It’s the plant.”

Elena found him in the gardening section of the hardware store, which was the last place she expected to find anyone interesting. She was there for perlite; he was staring at a row of pH meters with the intense bewilderment of a man who had just discovered that soil was complicated.

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“I miss having someone to cook for,” Elena said, halfway through the second glass of bourbon. “But I don’t miss the performance of it. The ‘look what I made, aren’t I a good wife’ of it all.”