My Son Brought

Mean is letting your children open presents from a boy you helped exclude and then calling yourself the injured party.”

“I didn’t exclude him!”

“You were inside.”

“I didn’t know what Mom said!”

“But you knew he wasn’t there.”

She opened her mouth.

Closed it.

I stepped closer.

“Did Cooper like the guitar pick punch?”

Her face changed.

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