I Heard My Uncle in the Hall Before I Saw What He’d Brought

my father. Clean haircut. White teeth. Expensive watch. The sort of man who says “circle back” in normal conversation and means it.

He fit.

I didn’t.

I was the daughter who got pregnant after a short thing with a man who disappeared before the first ultrasound.

I was the one who waited tables through community college, then left school for a while when continue reading …