Payable on Death
Then he read about half of page one.
And then my father sat back down in a kitchen chair in a house that had not belonged to his mother since the twelfth of October, and he did not tap his watch, and he said:
“When did she do this?”
And I said, “2016.”
And he said, “2016.”
And I said, “August.”
He looked at the pages for a while longer and then he said one more thing, and it is the only moment in two years when I came close to being sorry for him, and I have not decided whether I was.
He said: “She did this in 2016 and she had me round for dinner every other Sunday for eight years.”
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