The first time I said no, the room froze. Twenty uninvited guests stood in my parlor holding pies and casseroles, staring past my shoulder at a dining table set, very deliberately, for eight. My mother-in-law’s smile collapsed in stages as she took in the missing extension, the empty space where her certainty used to live, and finally my face. “Oh my God,” she whispered. “What did you d—” CUT… Continues…
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