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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. …

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with what I know to be true.

Some evenings, when the lake goes glassy and the children are upstairs doing homework, I sit in my study with Ellen’s picture on the shelf and think about the life we tried to build. Not perfect. Never that. But honest in the old-fashioned, unmarketable way that leaves a person less glamorous and more solid. She used to continue reading …

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