His leaving might not be quite as hard to ignore if he didn’t make a show of coming back here twice a year: on her birthday, July seventh, and her death date, October second.
I change out of my sweatpants into jeans and a plaid button-up, brush my teeth… Why am I brushing my teeth? Get it together, man. She’s not kissing you.
“He never picks the easy ones, does he?” I shake my head. “Nah, look at his wife,” Denny says. Jackson yells, “Better not be talking shit about my beautiful angel of a wife.”