Home Safe
“HELEN'S FATHER, FRANKLIN, ASKS Tessa. “You've grown about three feet, haven't you?”Tessa smiles and points to her boots. “They're high.”“But you've grown, too!”“I think I've stopped growing, Grandpa.”Franklin studies Tessa's face. Then he says, “Well, hell. I guess I've shrunk more, then. Want a martini?”“Sure!”“Helen?”“Okay.”“Eleanor?”“Maybe a half.”Franklin winks at Helen; they call her mother the Queen of Halves, for her tendency to cut virtually anything she eats in half. Almost invariably ...she eats both halves.“Anyone want a Christmas cookie?” Eleanor asks, and they all three answer yes.They sit around the kitchen table, talking, and Helen finally tells her parents about the house, skipping the monetary worries. At midnight, she is exhausted, but it seems Tessa and her parents could go on all night. “I think I'll go up and just put on my pajamas,” Helen says, and Tessa says, “Good niiiiight!”“I'll be back down,” Helen says, and together Tessa and her mother say, “No, you won't.”It's true.MoreLess
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