My Parents Took the $22,000 Hawaii Trip I Paid For

whether “helping clean” included actually cleaning, my father joined me by the window.

Walter sat between us, judging him.

For a while, we watched the city.

Then he said, “Your mother says I owe you an apology.”

I did not look at him.

“What do you say?”

He breathed through his nose.

“I say I don’t know how to do this.”

“That is not an apology.”

“I know.”

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