My Son Told Me Not to Come for Christmas but Two Days Later My Phone Would Not Stop Ringing

willingly and without complaint because I had told myself it was temporary and then told myself it was fine and then told myself it was what fathers did, and none of those things had been entirely true.

Maria would have seen it sooner. She had a way of looking at situations without the interference of hope, which is not the same as pessimism but is continue reading …