relocation

i just got back from dropping off official notice to our leasing office that terry and i won't be renewing our lease in august. i've now taken the first step in leaving an apartment that i've come to see as home. as i wrote the letter, trying to sound very professional, i couldn't shake the feeling that i was putting down onto paper an admission that my first attempt at making a home, my first attempt at marital bliss, had failed.

"i'm so sad," kate, our leasing officer, said when she read the letter.

"so am i," i replied.