My Cousin Read the Headline Out Loud at Thanksgiving

looked up from the article.

“This whole thing is political,” he said. “CEOs don’t get named out of nowhere.”

“You’re right,” I said. “They don’t.”

“What did you do?”

There it was.

Not how did this happen?

Not congratulations.

What did you do.

As if accomplishment required a crime if it came from me.

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