My Husband Is Now My Wife

By DIANE DANIEL
Published: August 18, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/fashion/modern-love-my-husband-is-now-my-wife.html?_r=1

THE alarm sounded at 4 a.m. on a Tuesday last November. My husband and I had been told to arrive two hours early, as if for a flight. My eyelids were puffy from the night before, when he had held me and said he was sorry, so very sorry.

I'd wept without warning after dinner because I would not see his face again, his perfectly average face with a sizable nose and weak chin, the face I'd held and kissed and been happy to greet for eight years.