“You’re not even in the will, sweetheart.” My stepmother said it so casually, right there at the 4th of July table in front of the whole family, that I almost believed I’d misheard her. She was…
My stepmother’s voice sliced through the kitchen: “You’re not even in the will, sweetheart. So I wouldn’t get too comfortable at that table. ” It was the 4th of July, and the whole Callaway family had gathered at my grandmother’s lake house on Seneca Lake. The air smelled like charcoal and citronella. My grandmother, Ruth, … Read more