CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

parents got out, would the news come back?

I answered what I could and told the truth about what I couldn’t.

The night he first asked me why I had done it, he stood at the door of my study in dinosaur pajama pants and socks that did not match.

“Grandpa?”

“Come in.”

He stepped inside, glanced at Ellen’s photograph, then at the lake beyond the window.

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