My Son Left Me Behind on Thanksgiving and Flew His Family to Hawaii—So Friday Morning, I Called Movers and Took Back Everything I Had Paid For

He had no immediate answer.

Then he asked:

“Why did you take the ivory dining table?”

I almost laughed.

Not because the question was funny.

Because we’d discussed it twice already.

Perhaps seeing the empty space made the decision real.

“I bought it, and you acknowledged it was mine to take.”