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

was saved, and if he said anything stupid on a recorded line, even better.

So I put the call on speaker and tapped record.

His voice came in hot.

“What kind of daughter sends legal threats to her own parents?”

The kind you trained, I thought.

Out loud, I said, “The kind whose child you mocked in public.”

“It was a figure of speech.”

“You called a six-year-old continue reading …