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David
“I don’t know how many other ways to tell you. I’m not coming home,” I told Katherine on the phone.
She’d called a half hour ago to try to convince me to come back, but that was out of the question. She knew I wasn’t coming back.
“David, be reasonable,” Katherine said.
“This is me being reasonable. I’m on the phone with you. I don’t have to be. I have other things going on in my life.”
“Will you talk to Mom?”
“No,” I said emphatically.
“She’d really love to hear from you. It’s been so long.”
“I know that you’re on their side, Ren, but I’m not.”
Katherine exhaled noisily in frustration. “Have you at least decided about the wedding?”
“Are you actually going through with it?” I joked.
Her response was feral. “I don’t talk about your poor life choices. You don’t have to ta
