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

nothing, as I had said nothing about the missed calls and the unanswered texts and the Christmas she spent with friends in Napa because the flight to Vermont was expensive and the timing was difficult.

She came inside and walked through the rooms with the slightly proprietary air of a person inventorying a space, and when she reached the kitchen she continue reading …