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

Thanksgiving, Grace found me staring at the empty table in my apartment.

“You’re doing the thing,” she said.

“What thing?”

“Pretending you’re not thinking while looking like someone writing a legal argument in her head.”

I sat down.

“I want to host a dinner.”

“For the company?”

“No. For the hospitals. Nurses, families, patients. People who usually spend the continue reading …