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. …
Susan looked up then, really looked at me, and saw something in my face that seemed to reorder her certainty. She did not hug me. That would have been too quick and too much to ask. But she stopped seeing me as the clean villain of a story her mother needed.
That was enough for one night.
The pleas came in December. Vincent cooperated early continue reading …
