On the first day, my mother-in-law smiled and humiliated me: “In this house you will eat the leftovers”; I didn’t raise my voice, I just obeyed every word until she had to cook alone for the whole family, and then everyone understood that the black notebook hid something much darker.

job, right?” another asked.

Uncle Gregory placed his silverware heavily on the plate.

“Tabitha, your husband would never have allowed a woman to be treated like a servant in his memory,” Uncle Gregory said sternly. “If you truly wanted to honor him today, you should have brought the family together, not turned his anniversary into a total disgrace.”

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