I Let My Father Hear From My Lawyer Before He Heard From Me

family over a joke?

Marla was thirty-nine, job-hopped every year, and used the word joke the way arsonists use spark.

I didn’t answer.

Then Aunt Cheryl, who had made the “everyone thinks” comment, wrote:

Your father has high blood pressure. If something happens to him because of this, that’s on you.

That one almost made me laugh.

My father had spent three continue reading …