My Mother-in-Law Pointed at My Baby and Screamed

“I had a brother.”

I didn’t answer.

“Diane had a brother too,” he said. “She doesn’t even know yet.”

“She will.”

He shook his head. “My whole family is built on things nobody said.”

I wanted to say mine too, probably, if we dug deep enough. But this wasn’t the time to compete in the trauma Olympics. I just put one pretzel on his knee.

He looked down at it.continue reading …