Nobody Was Present
I noticed that in the June of 2026 and asked her about it and she looked at me like I was slow and said: “Dad, she took my keys.”
Part Forty-Seven: What She Asked Me in 2021
And in the January of 2026, in a different car, on the way back from her appointment, my daughter did the thing to me.
She did it well.
She had clearly been working up to it and she did it with the road in front of her and no eye contact, which is a kindness, and which I did not deserve.
She said: “Do you remember when I asked to go and live with Grandma Elia?”
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