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

Repaired what we could.

Saved receipts.

Kept records.

Believed that a promise should be clear enough to remember without argument.

I used to tease him.

He was particular about everything.

Once, he made me write the exact date of a refrigerator purchase in a notebook.

“Why?”