The divorce settlement was finalized in October, eleven months after the night in the kitchen.Zara signed the papers at five in the morning at her kitchen table, the way she had known she would — alone, in the early light, with a cup of coffee going cold beside her. She had known this about herself since the day she filed: that she was not going to sign in a conference room with attorneys present, the way these things were typically done, because the conference room was a performance and this was not a performance. This was the ending of one chapter and she intended to do it privately.She had read every page of the agreement. She had read it three times. She was satisfied with it — not emotionally satisfied, which was a different category — but professionally satisfied. The settlement was fair. It was the result of both parties negotiating in good faith, which was not something she had been certain of at the beginning and which she acknowledged, internally, was partly the product of
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