Now divorced, Joe thought of his four older brothers and kid sister. Their folks died alone in different cities. Had his brothers and sister moved, married, had children? He’d had their addresses on slips of paper but lost them along the way.
They had no gathering place where they could trim a tree, exchange presents, sing carols. They wouldn’t stuff, cook, and eat the bird or play football afterwards, the family dog tripping them at every turn.
But maybe the others were meeting and hadn’t told him or couldn’t find him? Or, had he tried hard enough to find them?
They had no gathering place where they could trim a tree, exchange presents, sing carols. They wouldn’t stuff, cook, and eat the bird or play football afterwards, the family dog tripping them at every turn.
But maybe the others were meeting and hadn’t told him or couldn’t find him? Or, had he tried hard enough to find them?
