My Daughter Called Two Days Before Christmas And Told Me Not To Come Dad's

My daughter called two days before Christmas and told me not to come, because my ex-husband's new wife would be there and the family was trying to make her feel like family, and then she added that I always find somewhere else to be at Christmas anyway. She was right about that last part. For twenty-two years I have disappeared every holiday, and in all that time not one of my children ever asked me where I go. That week an ice storm took the power out of four thousand homes in this county, and at first light on Christmas morning my phone rang, and my daughter could barely get the words out.