Do We Need Each Other?

Derek Dano, Fisherman

Glower Harbor, Northeast Dayton Wetlands

August 3, ██18

Has Jennifer always been this weird, or is it a recent thing? I'm a little confused. I'm not ashamed to admit that she and I don't have much of an emotional foundation to our marriage. She came from a good family—born and raised on the east coast of the mainland, she arrived in Nalcott only a few years before we met, with a suitcase full of money and nursing a broken heart from her first marriage. She needed a husband. Someone to be her partner, and help her run her little fishing port and roadside supermarket. And I was in pretty good physical shape, with no family and no money to speak of. We came together because, on a purely practical level, we made sense. But emotionally... All Jennifer needed was a husband, not a lover. I've been reminding myself of this for the past two years...