A Christmas Gift Disparity Sparked An Unexpected Morning Reckoning – The Archivist

like that was a reasonable explanation. “The service is tomorrow at two.”

“Where?”

“The funeral home on Coastal Highway. You know the one.”

I didn’t know the one. I’d been excluded from enough family events that I’d never been to a family funeral in that area.

“I’ll be there,” I said.

“Okay,” she said, and hung up.

I took emergency leave from work and made continue reading …