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

on the phone for another minute. Neither of us tried to repair twenty years in one conversation.

Before hanging up, Mom said, “Christmas is next week.”

I waited.

“I’d like to see your table.”

I looked at the empty chairs.

“You can come.”

“What about your father?”

“That depends on him.”

That afternoon, Dad called.

Not Mom’s phone.

His.

I watched his name on the continue reading …