Chapter 094 – The Thanksgiving Invitation
Chapter 94 - Chapter 094 – The Thanksgiving Invitation
The second Thanksgiving after the bus station, I invited Peter.
Not Martin.
Not Elaine yet.
Peter came alone with a pie he did not make and honesty he was still learning to carry.
Before dinner, he stood in the foyer and looked at the family photograph I had re-hung.
“I hate seeing us like that,” he said.
“Happy?”
“Before.”
I joined him.
“Before is not innocent just because it was earlier.”
He nodded slowly.
At dinner, he thanked me for inviting him and did not once mention the house.
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That was the first holiday after that felt like a beginning instead of a test.
Small beginnings still count.
