“Tom, is it?” they would say to the father. “So glad Jenn asked you and your boy to come over,” they would say. They'd
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| Photo: Craig Sanders, Flickr, Creative Commons |
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Christmas Dinner
On Christmas Eve in the neighbor's kitchen, nine-year-old Kevin kept a finger through his father’s belt loop as strangers kept introducing themselves.
“Tom, is it?” they would say to the father. “So glad Jenn asked you and your boy to come over,” they would say. They'd
introduce themselves as Jenn’s brother or sister, somebody's mother or aunt. Kevin glanced up to see his father shaking their hands politely. The boy couldn’t keep track of the names. He clung to his father’s belt.
“Tom, is it?” they would say to the father. “So glad Jenn asked you and your boy to come over,” they would say. They'd
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