I Left My House Empty Three Days Before Christmas

run off with a line-dancing instructor and spend all her inheritance.”

I laughed so hard my eyes stung.

Then Mrs. Talbert lowered her voice. “Margaret, can I say one thing ugly?”

“When has that ever stopped you?”

“You trained them. So now you untrain them. Don’t fold because they make noise.”

After I hung up, I sat there a while with that.

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