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. …

Vincent helped carve the turkey. Linda complimented the stuffing and told me the lake looked “practically cinematic” at sunset. If you had taken a still frame from those first forty minutes, we might have looked like a family that had merely weathered a busy season.

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