Married With Restaurant

How did this happen?

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Between 2007 and 2011, while I was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Brussels, my then-wife and I owned an Italian restaurant. The marriage lasted five years. We had no children. Our shared arena was Con Gusto, a cozy canteen with 46 chairs, where journalists, lobbyists, civil servants, bankers, and shopkeepers gathered for dishes like penne all’arrabiata, or…