My Mother In Law Made Me Clean Up Alone After Easter Until I Agreed To Something They Did Not Expect

families with their cameras, and I thought about the kitchen table years ago, about the chair scraped backward and the suitcase by the door and the child in socks asking why Daddy was dressed like that.

And I thought: we are here anyway.

We got here anyway.

That was enough. That was, finally and completely, more than enough.