At Easter Brunch My Brother Demanded The Beach House Until I Called My Lawyer And Changed Everything

primary, and he had believed it, and he had never been given a strong reason to question it. My mother had spent years watching this and deciding, finally, that she would give him one.

My father had gone quiet in a different way. Not Mark’s processing quiet, but the stillness of a man sitting with something he didn’t know how to name.

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