Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. SYDNEY About three years after we moved in, we sent e-vites to a party celebrating the publication of a friend’s book. Did your husband recently have hip or knee surgery?”SYDNEY Reading the catalog of intimate details was simultaneously hilarious and mortifying. VAL “Yes, yes, yes and yes,” she wrote back. It was the puzzle of trying to piece together the details of their life that had drawn me toward their windows.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 18:45 UTC