My Mother In Law Claimed My New Apartment Until I Took The Trash Out

not because Lorraine’s lipstick had actually left anything behind after the dishwasher, but because I needed some private, symbolic ritual to reclaim it as fully mine.

Audrey came to visit two months after the divorce was final, fully recovered by then, teasing me relentlessly about the fact that she’d had major surgery and I still somehow managed continue reading …