I Said “Okay” And Packed Before They Knew What I’d Sent

the dumbest thing he could’ve said.

“Delete that one.”

Like I could unsend the last six years.

The Part They Didn’t Know

My father had a side business.

Everybody called it a construction company. That made it sound bigger than it was. Mostly it was Dad, another guy named Pete Dugan, and whichever cousin or church kid needed cash work hauling drywall or continue reading …