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

wanted the room on his side.

A small one.

“Your table,” he said.

“That’s right.”

Dad and Mom arrived two days before Christmas.

Cole did not come. He sent a message saying he wasn’t ready, which was more honest than any excuse he could have offered.

Mom stepped into my apartment and stopped beneath the framed blueprint.

“You kept the first design.”

“Grace continue reading …