I Paid My Father $250 in Rent Every Month for Five Years. After His Funeral, His Best Friend Gave Me a Key and a Box.

“Don’t feel like you have to be grateful tonight.

You can be angry.

You can be both.”

I had no answer for him.

After he left, I set the vest back in the box and stared at that key until the kitchen went dark around me.

PART 3