Thanksgiving 2010; much to be
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Thanksgiving 2010 –
much to be thankful for...
right?
My mother
takes our hands
looks deadly serious.
“We've decided,”
she says, the royal we,
“to let the house go.”
I have to admit
it's not a huge surprise
but is my heart breaking?
Money has been
the bane of my existence
for as long as I can remember
I don't let her
see me cry.
February 2011 –
there's an official-looking
notice on the counter
Foreclosure,
it says, the house goes to the bank
The words blur beneath my tears.
We start the packing,
start the fighting,
start the stressing.
Sister breaks
a butter dish
loudest screaming I've ever heard.
But miraculously
and very very slowly
we settle in.
I actually start
calling the new place
home.