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

bitterness, which told me more about where he actually was than the words themselves did.

“She told me I had misled her,” he said. “That she thought we were wealthy. That I had let her believe something that wasn’t true.”

“She wasn’t wrong about that,” I said. “You let her believe it because you wanted to be the man she saw when she looked at you.”

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