My Son Called at Midnight About the Blanket His Wife Threw Away

of dignity in silence, but people who live loudly never understand it. They think if you didn’t scream, nothing happened.

“What did you say to that?” I asked.

He looked at the note again.

“I said she threw my father’s last gift in the trash before our son was even born.”

I don’t know what face I made then. He looked away.

“She said she didn’t know.”

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