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“OhProbably the best secret anyone has ever told me” A blush joins the srandmother? And why didn’t you ever send them?”

“Because randmother was crazy It felt like, so ridiculous Butwith her, so I didn’t see her I didn’t even have her address” She laughs “Though, I doubt I’d have had the guts to send them even if I did”

“If she and your dad didn’t get along, she was probably the perfect person to send a letter in which you called hi to knohy you were calling him a pussy in the first place That’s pretty damn hilarious I mean, I knew your parents in a very remote, removed sense, but I didn’t have any real occasion to know anything other than that they were always very punctual when coet your brother from the principal’s office Mine were always a little late”

“I can’t say I remember the exact incident that incited the word pussy,” she explains further “But I believe it had so to do with the way he always rolled over for my mom”

“Soood to let your wife set the pace” I offer a knowing s happy wife, happy life for nothing”

“Yeah, but it wasn’t created for my mom The exact opposite, actually She was never really happy, and my dad let her bully him into decisions that were questionable”

“Wow, Rock That’s some really personal shit for a non-personal conversation”

It is some deep shit, but the fact that I’m here, at this bar, on the same day I buried e

She sinks her face into her hands and laughs “God, you’re right What have you started here, Doctor? How e for the hour?”

“Oh no,” I ade to serve as her salve “You don’t want ical issues when it coht from my dad’s funeral”

“Oha delicate hand to her mouth “I’m sorry”

I shrug “Yeah, see…I’h “I told you I had my own issues”

“So, you’re saying we’re both headcases?” she asks, and the soft, relief in her voice hter

I chuckle and shrug again “If the shoe fits”