I admit, I was ready to jump you about the tree and for no good reason. I know it was just to be nasty again. But when I looked at it I thought it was...one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. It’s just ... I don’t know how to say it except to say it’s perfect. Everything about it is perfect.I was just sitting there looking at it thinking it reminded me of every pleasant Christmas memory I’ve ever had. Then you came in and said about me giving you a hard time about last year’s tree and. So I put a plan to get what I wanted together. I paid cash for 65 acres of land and had a home built on it. I made 6-figures, year in and year out, and might should have just counted on paying cash for the home rather than all that mortgage interest, but mortgage interest is the last good tax deduction and I knew me well enough to know I couldn’t save the amount of money I would need to pay cash for the home. It had taken every bit of discipline I had to save enough for the land.So after I had. I know we’re going to be heading back to school soon but she needs this closer in her life.” I told my dad but I said it more for my benefit than for anyone else’s.Elena gives me a faint smile then turns to dad and she finally drops her robe. I find that I can’t watch what was going to happen so I turn away from them. It seemed like an eternity before I heard any noise come from the room behind me. That noise was the sound of Elena taking in a deep gasp of air. I turned around quickly and saw. ."Mom's turn to nod. "So I wait?" No, you go to Philadelphia. You sit through three days of meetings and pretend you couldn't have learned just as much in a one-page memo. You visit your old friend Mary and relive your glory years of protests and getting hauled off to jail. Then you call Dad and meet him in San Francisco for a weekend and wonder why you ever had kids." Dad had a planners' conference all week and had left today."What about baseball?" Doesn't start until next week. I actually.