My Sister Called Me a Leech at Thanksgiving Until a Colonel Stood Up and Changed the Room

Tonight I was too tired to be anything. I wanted to eat my turkey and drive home.

Then Uncle Ray, good-natured and oblivious in the way that good-natured people can be, turned to me and said, “So, Amelia, how’s the Army treating you? Still doing the computer thing?”

I said what I always said. “Busy. Same old.”

Amanda was two glasses of wine into the continue reading …