How To Write a Happier Ending

Have pity on your family - tie up those loose ends while you can.

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After one holiday meal, during which my mother saw to it that all her children were well and truly stuffed with her best fare, she ordered the four of us to a meeting in the den. “Since you’re all together, I want you to decide now what you want,” she said. We weren’t sure what she meant, so she explained. “I don’t want yo…