He put the restaurant’s card on it.”
Cordelia told me something in month nine that I’ve kept.
“Toni, I’ve done two hundred divorces.
The husbands who did the most damage never once used the word ‘we’ in a deposition.
It’s always ‘I built,’ ‘I found,’ ‘I developed.’
And the wives sit there and don’t correct it, because correcting it sounds small, and by the time they’d like to correct it, it’s twenty years and the record’s full of ‘I.'”
“So what do you do?”
“You don’t argue with the ‘I.’
You find the one document that says ‘she’ and you put it on the table.
Your mother wrote that document in 2006.
She wrote it with a pen, in her name, for this.”
“For a divorce?”
“For whatever came.
Toni, a woman who leases a building to her son-in-law at a low rent and puts an injury clause in it isn’t planning a divorce.
