He told me he wanted to see all of us. He told me seven o’clock.

I’d driven here believing—like an idiot, like a man who never learns—that this time might be different. I had walked through that door with a daughter’s drawing and a wife’s hope, only to find that the invitation wasn’t for a meal, but for an execution.

Now the room was voting on whether continue reading …

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