My Son Walked Into My New Home Before I Ever Gave Him the Address

This all started because you hid the move. That’s not normal. Families share addresses. Grandmothers don’t buy secret apartments.”

Secret apartments.

I almost laughed.

Instead I heard my own voice, calm and flat and older than I’d ever heard it.

“Grandmothers also don’t usually have to protect themselves from their own children.”

Matthew flinched.

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