They Gave My Sister A House For Christmas So I Gave My Father One Envelope

I had chosen it with care and still wanted him to have it, but that I was going to leave after he finished reading, and that I wished them a good Christmas, and that I hoped the year ahead would be what each of them needed.

My father set the page down.

My mother had come close enough to read over his shoulder and I watched her read it. I watched both continue reading …