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

not been home in almost six years, but the dining room looked exactly as I remembered it. The amber pendant light cast a warm circle over my mother’s china. A football game murmured from the living room. The windows had fogged slightly from the oven, and the room smelled like sage, butter, and the furniture polish Mom used before company arrived.

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