Skipped by the Altar, Taken by His Uncle novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Thanksgiving
"I would not edit it."
"You edit the specials board at the diner when you're waiting for pie."
"Their apostrophes are a crime."
"Thursday," he said, and kissed my temple, and wouldn't say another word about it all week.
I tried at breakfast, and in the truck, and once in the shower.
On Thursday there were nineteen people in a house with one bathroom.
Earl got there first, at seven in the morning, with a twenty-two-pound turkey in a cooler and the conviction that nobody else in the family could cook it.
"The boy punishes eggs," he told me. "Imagine what he'd do to a bird."
So Earl and I did the bird.
Reuben was allowed to peel potatoes, under supervision.
Connie came at ten with three pies and her cat in a carrier, because the cat didn't like being alone on holidays.
The cat went under the woodstove and stayed there all day, judging us.
The barber brought folding chairs from his shop. The baker brought rolls in a laundry basket.
The waitress from the diner brought her two kids, who found the johnboat in ten minutes and had to be retrieved from the boathouse.
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