While driving my wife to work, I happened to find a train ticket she’d left on the passenger seat.
That was how I learned she’d secretly signed up for a twenty-year teaching program in Tibet.
And the man she’d always cherished as her unattainable first love worked there too.
Two weeks before she was due to leave, she pretended to slip and fall into the water, then had our baby aborted.
One week before she left, she threw a farewell banquet and invited countless friends and relatives.
She kept me completely in the dark.
On the day she left, I quietly bought a ticket for a train departing at the same time as hers, but heading in the opposite direction.
Ignoring her incredulous stare, I boarded the train without a word.
I also handed her the divorce agreement, along with evidence that her first love had embezzled and accepted bribes and misappropriated public funds.
