My Father-in-Law Told Me to Leave the Men’s Talk, But His Marine Son Saw My Army Jacket and Exposed Who I Really Was

had too much social skill for that. He said it around me, past me, above me, let it hang in the air of whatever room I happened to be sitting in. A real one in the family, finally.

I heard it every time.

On the Fourth of July, Tyler and I made the drive down to Gerald’s place outside Jacksonville. It was already blazing by midmorning, the kind of heat continue reading …