The Christmas Exit
Language: en
For our family Christmas gift exchange, I bought my husband a pair of Italian leather loafers worth nearly a thousand dollars. I bought my son a limited-edition collector’s model kit he’d been begging for. And what did I receive? A pair of cheap, yellow rubber dishwashing gloves from the dollar store, with two scouring pads tied together to look like a "flower." My husband hugged our son, looking at me with a doting smile. "Honey, you work so hard. This is for you." I took the "flower," forced the corners of my mouth up, and gave a stiff smile. The next second, my son looked at me…