My wife said she had church commitments and “computer classes,” so I stopped asking questions—until one canceled trip made me trail her bus to Memphis and watch her walk into a hotel I’d never heard of. My name is Elijah Dixon—Eli in Willow Creek, Mississippi. I’m seventy-four now, retired from a lifetime of welding, and I used to think forty-five years of marriage meant there were no surprises left. After Grace retired, Tuesdays and Thursdays became “computer class in Memphis,” along with churc