Chapter 082 – Martin’s Son
Chapter 82 - Chapter 082 – Martin’s Son
Martin’s son, Jacob, came to see me in April.
He was twenty-six, tall, embarrassed, and holding a plant.
“Dad doesn’t know I’m here,” he said.
“That seems wise.”
He smiled nervously.
“I wanted to apologize for asking if Grandma’s things were ours yet.”
Ah.
The sentence that had cracked Mason enough to return the jewelry.
“You were asking what you had been taught to ask,” I said.
“I hated how Dad answered.”
“What did he say?”
Jacob looked down.
“He said old people’s stuff becomes family stuff eventually.”
I touched the plant’s leaves.
“Eventually is not the same as now.”
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“I know that now,” he said.
Another generation, learning.
