I Returned For Thanksgiving To Find My Parents Gone—And My Father Waiting

rage, “did Elaine fill this prescription?”

He nodded, his eyes squeezed shut against the pain. “Said… said the pharmacy raised the price. Copay was too high. She said she had to… to stretch it out.”

“Stretch it out,” I repeated, the words tasting like poison in my mouth.

I slammed the bottle down on the table hard enough to make the other pill bottles continue reading …