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

had made from scratch because she was, despite everything, a genuinely good cook when she wanted to be. A pumpkin pie cooling on the far end of the counter. Everything she had wanted, presented the way she wanted it, for the people she had decided deserved it.

I started loading it into the foil trays I found in the cabinet above the refrigerator.

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