GS-The turkey was still warm when he said it. I had not returned home…

he had an audience.

“You know,” he said, “not everyone sitting here deserves to be here.”

For half a second, nobody moved.

Then Cole laughed.

His wife joined him with an uncertain smile. Mom gave a small, automatic laugh that disappeared almost as quickly as it came.

Every face turned toward me.

Dad had always known how to make a pointed remark sound like continue reading …