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

across the back.

I stared at it.

“Where did you find this?”

“Your mother kept it.”

Mom shook her head.

“No. I found it in your father’s workbench.”

I looked at him.

Dad pulled out a chair but did not sit.

“I took it from your drawer after you left,” he said. “I told myself I was keeping it because you’d want it someday.”

“And the real reason?”

He looked toward continue reading …