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And they watched television with the intensity of a billion stars. And then the children started fussing. And the father said, Who are they?

The kids were hopped up on sugar and ran around breaking everything that was breakable. When did we think this was a good idea? he asked her

The father stares down the kids. Not one of you are my favorites, he shouts. The youngest one starts to cry. The oldest one says, Well, duh.

It started with a little lie, told to facilitate bedtime. And then the next lie was bigger. And then one day he told his son he was a woman.

She takes her shoes off. Get comfortable, he says. She goes to the washroom and leaves the door open and farts loudly. And he calls his mom.

As she walked out on him she remembered her sixth birthday, when her father had yelled: You don’t deserve cake! This nursing home would do.