MY PARENTS INVITED ME TO A FANCY FAMILY DINNER

the equal-split arrangement.”

“Out of it how.”

She turned a page toward me. “He wanted to gift it to Terrence outright. Before he and your mother passed. The reasoning on file is, and I’m reading, ‘Terrence has a family and the property will stay in the bloodline.’”

I stared at the cartoon-turkey placemat that was suddenly, ridiculously, alive again in continue reading …