NOBODY FROM MY FAMILY CAME TO MY GRADUATION

when you were three. And we decided – he decided, and I went along with it, God help me – that it would be cleaner if you just thought I was your mother. You were so little. You didn’t remember her. It seemed kinder.”

“Kinder,” I said.

“It seemed kinder at the time,” she said, and her chin did something I’d never seen it do.

I looked at Curtis. My dad.continue reading …