My Son Flew His Family To Hawaii For Thanksgiving And Left Me Behind With A Note On The Refrigerator

He stood in the doorway of a condo in a fifty-five-and-over community and he looked about nine years old.

“Mom. Can I come in.”

And I said: “You can sit on the patio. Delphine’s here and she’s staying.”

He sat down and he said: “I don’t understand what happened.”

And I said: “I read the bin, Daniel.”

He put his head down.

And then my forty-four-year-old son cried on a patio in Scottsdale, Arizona, and said:

“I didn’t know how to tell you.”

And I said: “That it was eighteen hundred and fifty dollars?”

And he said: “That I needed you to be there.”
That’s the sentence. Eleven months later, that’s still the sentence.

Because do you know what he said next? He said:

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