I left the hospital with the belongings.

Back home, I painstakingly pieced the sketchbook back together.

Though the book was in tatters, it was Jennifer's, and I still cherished it as a treasure.

Matt did not contact me for a long time.

When the cooling-off period for our divorce ended, we went to collect the divorce certificate.

As we left the civil affairs bureau, he looked at me and said, "Jennifer is about to take her college entrance exams. I don't want her to know about our divorce and have it affect her exams. If you care about her, you should keep it from her too."

It had been over...