The Slip

The SlipThere you were, celebrating your seventh wedding anniversary in a restaurant uptown. Your wife, who could not have looked better with her freshly cut hair and rose-petal complexion, had been describing her day at school, where she teaches Far East Asian history at one of the city's universities. Not yet 30 and already tenured, she has advanced remarkably fast. You, on the other hand, have lost momentum. You work for one of the big auction houses, an expert in the Chinese department, wher...