I Let Them Finish Eating Before I Took Everything Back

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A lawyer somewhere would’ve had a field day with that sentence.

I said, “You used documents from companies you don’t own.”

He spread his hands. “For us. I was doing it for us.”

There it was. The rotten center of it. Not even shame. Just entitlement wearing a nice jacket.

A few relatives started pushing back their chairs.

Eleanor’s brother, Mitch, muttered,continue reading …