Chapter 16

After the divorce, I sold the Dallas house.
Not because Vanessa won.
Because Mom could not walk through the kitchen without freezing.
I bought a smaller house near James.
One floor.
Wide halls.
Sunroom.
Garden.
No hallway closet near the kitchen.
Mom chose yellow curtains.
Terrible yellow curtains.
I bought them immediately.
She laughed when I said they were beautiful.
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“They are ugly,” she said.
“Yes,” I said. “But they are yours.”