Almost as if we were producing a blaxploitation Fellini movie, everybody played right along and even offered their own special storyline to this grand delusion, including my father, who despite not coming to my graduation, despite likely having had a hand—though I’m not making an accusation!—in his wife’s disappearance, offered not only to bring me a couple dollars as I headed off to college, but to rent a U-Haul trailer and drive me the 1,600 miles from Dallas to New Haven. Not just me, but Granny, Mama, Tashia, and Tashia’s newborn baby. (I like that baby, now a girl, a great deal and will
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