Dad hu.mi.liated me in front of 30 people: “You weren’t important enough to be invited to your sister’s wedding.” – Welcome

One afternoon, Dad began saying, “Shannon probably knows someone—”

Then stopped himself.

“I’ll ask Fiona what she wants to do.”

That tiny correction made me smile.

Grandma Beatrice adopted a new family motto.

“Ask before assuming.”

Nobody knew where she’d picked it up.

She claimed she’d always believed it.

We let her keep the fiction.

Fiona kept working.

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