Yours, Stepdad
In the right order at roughly the right speed, the last one landing underneath the third the way it is supposed to, the way it does the thing it does.
My father says: "Oh."
Just that. The same syllable he produced at a kitchen counter last Wednesday when I told him I was going to ask him to walk me down the aisle.
Kane, from the doorway: "Show-off."
And Richie, from the sofa, quietly, to nobody: "She got it in two."
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We stay in there for another hour.
I do not remember what we talk about. That is not the part I kept.
What I kept is this: a room in the east wing of a penthouse I was brought to as collateral, with the door open, and four people in it, three of whom did not exist in my life
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