My Son Said His Family Was Moving In Without Asking but When They Arrived Everything Changed

understood now was that the house had always been a symbol of the real thing, which was not a place at all but the capacity to decide for myself. I had sold the symbol and kept the substance. I had traded a house that was becoming a battlefield for a life that was finally, entirely, mine to arrange.

I got into bed that night in the smaller house I had continue reading …