My mother-in-law pointed at the door during New Year’s dinner and snapped, **“If you don’t like my rules, get out!”** – Welcome

something. You always organize everything.”

“Yes.”

“I remember thinking it was strange nobody had heard from you.”

“Did you text me?”

Silence.

“No.”

“Did anybody?”

“I don’t know.”

“I didn’t receive anything.”

She apologized.

I told her I wasn’t calling for an apology.

“What are you calling for?”

“The truth.”

So she gave it to me.

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