At My Son’s Society Wedding They Seated Me In The Last Row Because They Thought I Was Poor

my relationship is worth to you. The assumption is that I can be purchased. That after sixty-eight years of building a life, of working and teaching and loving people and losing them and continuing anyway, what I am is a transaction waiting to happen.”

She began to respond.

“Three days ago,” I continued, “that assumption might have worked. Not because continue reading …