A Card Would Be Fine

For my 16th birthday, my father told me he had cancer.

It wasn’t until several years later that I found out it wasn’t true. He hadn’t started out with the intention to lie to my brother and I, but as usual, things got away on him. He’d gotten pretty far behind with his child support payments and to get my mother off his back, he told her he was dying. I think she initially met this claim with skepticism(I’m not sure of the circumstances, but he apparently had used this tactic once before when...