My Wife Did Not Invite My Father to Thanksgiving Because of His Job

talk to anyone within three minutes of meeting them. He was not making an excuse for himself. He was making one for her, because that was the kind of man he was, the kind who absorbed other people’s unkindness and repackaged it as something that made sense.

“I’ll call you back, Dad,” I said.

I walked into the dining room.

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