My Dad Filmed Me on Thanksgiving and Posted It Online Then My Sister Tried to Take Money From My Account

My siblings had commented laughing emojis and “LOL Dad” and “She’s so you, Mom!” as if my mother’s memory were currency that could be spent to make a cruelty feel like tenderness.

“It’s just Dad being Dad,” my sister said. “Don’t take it so seriously.”

Don’t take it so seriously. The phrase that has excused a thousand small cruelties, that turns pain continue reading …