21 July 2022 Talk about a pregnant moment, gravid with significance. Two years ago, on this day in the early months of a worldwide pandemic, was the last “family event” of my marriage, a summer riverfront walk, and a stop for ice-cream. A few days later, on one of those early-COVID “socially distanced” date nights, my wife gave me my “Dear John.” Our lives no longer meshed, she said, but she would always be my friend, and she moved out by the end of the week. I knew she wasn