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The house. Not “the old place” or “Dad’s house.” Just the house , as if it were the only one that had ever existed. A three-bedroom ranch on a half-dead cul-de-sac, where the foundation had settled wrong and the basement flooded every spring. Where my father had sat in his recliner for fifteen years, remote control in one hand and a beer in the other, while the world turned outside without him.

We sat there until the coffee went cold. And then we poured more.

“You look good,” he said.

No one said anything for a long time. The furnace rattled. The kitchen clock ticked. Somewhere outside, a dog barked, and another dog answered.

“Jo,” he said. Not like a question. Like a correction he was willing to make. “Come in. Sit down.”

“That’s what dying does,” I said. “It makes people soft. It doesn’t make them good.” I went anyway. Of course I went. That’s the trap of family—no matter how many maps you draw, the blood keeps finding its way back to the same poisoned ground.

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