SIR
“I can’t imagine staying away from David for the better part of a year, every year.”
“Speaking of…” Selene says, pointing her fork at my father, “David owes me a personal apology. Your husband,” she says to my mother, “has borrowed mine for seventeen years and the going rate for that kind of long-term loan should include at minimum a villa in Sardinia.”
“You have a villa in Sardinia,” my father says.
“A nicer one, then.”
“You have the nicest one available in that region.”
“Then freaking build another one… I don’t know. You’re a freaking billionaire, figure it out.” She waves her fork around as she says it. “I swear a mistress would probably demand less attention than this job does.”