Dinner was almost over. Plates were nearly cleared, conversation light, the familiar smell of roasted chicken still lingering in the dining room. Nothing about that evening suggested what would happen next.
Then, without warning, my son’s mother-in-law, Margaret Collins, stood up.
One moment, she was smiling politely across the table. The next, she lifted the bowl of soup in front of her and flung its contents toward me.
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