At Easter dinner, my mother-in-law had me – News

not know what else to do. It was a full, genuine, delighted laugh, the laugh of someone who found the moment genuinely funny. He pointed at me. “Look at her face,” he said, addressing the table. “She looks like she fell in a mud puddle.”

A few of the relatives chuckled, nervously at first and then with more conviction as they took their cue from him.continue reading …