My Mother Gave Me 48 Hours to Leave the House I Had Been Paying For Until My Lawyer Reviewed the Papers

a person doing something ordinary.

“I hope you’re thinking about your situation,” she said.

“I have been thinking about it all night,” I told her, which was true.

I did not tell her what I had been thinking. That was a conversation that would happen when Diane’s formal notice arrived, and not before. My grandfather had spent his life being specific and continue reading …