GS-At the Christmas celebration, I overheard my daughter-in-law proudl…

people was coming. Necessary, satisfying in small ways, but still labor.

By afternoon, Julian came downstairs.

He knocked on the study door the way he had not knocked in three years.

“Mom?”

“Come in.”

He sat.

I placed a lease agreement between us.

“What’s this?”

“A rental agreement for the upper apartment.”

His face emptied.

“Rent?”

“Yes.”

“But we’re family.”

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