My Parents Returned With a Moving Truck After Grandpa’s Funeral, But He Had Left One Final Instruction
One parent-teacher meeting you attended.
One Christmas you visited.”
“Your grandfather wanted you here.”
“I wanted parents.”
The admission surprised even me.
For years I’d told people I didn’t need them.
Mostly I meant that I couldn’t afford to keep needing them.
Arthur took Mom by the elbow.
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