My Son Took the Villa and Sent Me to the Beach Cabin but My Wife Had Left Me Something Better

or her book club, or the garden club, and she came here, to me. And I got sicker.” She gestured at the crutches, at the prescription bottle. “MS. It progresses. She started coming to help. Groceries, appointments, the things that get hard. And she bought this cabin two years ago, in her own name, so that I’d have somewhere to live that no one could continue reading …