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

of a life she wanted witnessed. It included her parents, her cousins, Michael’s cousins, my sister Rosa, and approximately thirty friends and professional contacts of the couple, the entire audience for the narrative she had been constructing.

It was New Year’s Eve. People were feeling expansive.

“Since we are sharing stories,” I wrote, “I thought the continue reading …