With a Kmart watch and a car with a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it.”
“I’m so ashamed,” he said, and his voice came apart. “I’m so ashamed, Mom. Not of you. Of me. I stood up at my wedding and let forty-six people think my mother was dying, because I didn’t want them to meet her and find out who I really was.”
He put his face in his hands.
“Dad built this whole house with his hands, and I’ve been lying about it my whole life.”
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