My Family Told Me Not to Show Up to the Baby Shower—So I Sent a Helicopter Instead

messaging.

I pulled up my mother’s number and typed: “Enjoy the party.”

Then I silenced my phone and went back to my champagne.

Over the next six hours, my phone accumulated forty-seven missed calls and sixty-three text messages. I didn’t read any of them. I had a late lunch on the yacht, took a swim in the Mediterranean, and then got dressed for dinner continue reading …