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

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He didn’t answer.

Because he knew.

In the background I heard my mother say something sharp, too muffled to make out. He covered the phone, spoke to her, came back.

“You’re making this uglier than it needs to be.”

I said, “No, Dad. You just finally ran out of people willing to call ugly a joke.”

And that was the last time I called him Dad.

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