“Dad… My Back Hurts So Bad I Can’t Sleep. Mom Told Me Not to Tell You.” I Had Just Walked In From a Business Trip

“Like somebody else’s house.”

That sentence gave me peace I did not know I needed.

Not cursed.

Not sacred.

Somebody else’s house.

PART 65 — SARAH AND I AT GRADUATION

Lily graduated from college.

Sarah sat on one side of me.

Anna on the other.

Buster had died the previous year, which was perhaps the only reason he was not somehow in attendance.