At 30,000 Feet, I Watched My Wife Crawl Across the Floor With Both Legs in Casts While My Mother Hid Her Crutches—Then I Noticed What Was Recording Behind Them

Someone always became the shock absorber.

Usually Clara.

PART 46 — “DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE”

I had said it once.

Years earlier.

Clara asked me to tell Mom to stop entering our house without warning.

I answered:

“Please don’t make me choose between you two over a stupid key.”

I had forgotten.

Clara had not.