house after refinancing and adjusting retirement assets. Daniel repaid the documented marital expenditures through our settlement. We divided the furniture: he took the basement sectional; I kept the dining table and happily relinquished the espresso machine, whose cleaning had annoyed me for nine years.
Daniel rented a Westerville townhouse. Rachel never returned to him. I learned that through the usual family chain: he told Ben, Ben told Lily, and Lily mentioned it while complaining that families were terrible at handling information efficiently. I neither contacted Rachel nor heard from her.