I did not read it. I have read it since; it is eleven pages.
And what that document means is that the hundred and eighty-seven thousand that came out of that business in 2024 came for both of us, and that the house was in negative equity because of a signature of mine from 2021.
So when I say that my husband was a man so far down he could not wait for an answer to a text message — I know exactly how far down, and I know what the number was, and part of that number has my name on
and it had been in trouble since about 2022.
And I signed for it.
Not the loans — the guarantee, in the March of 2021, at our kitchen table, in about four minutes, because he said the bank needed a second name and because I had a shift at two.
I did not read it. I have read it since; it is eleven pages.