Wed. Mar 25th, 2026

The first time my father wore my robe, I was too stunned to speak.

He stood in the center of my master suite as if he had always belonged there, broad shoulders wrapped in pale silk, one side of the robe hanging open across his chest. In one hand, he held my crystal scotch glass. With the other, he dragged his fingertips over my duvet like he was inspecting property he intended to keep.

My mother was sitting on the velvet bench at the foot of my bed, using two fingers to scoop my eight-hundred-dollar face cream out of its jar. She rubbed it into her skin without a flicker of guilt, as casually as if it had been bought on clearance at a drugstore.

Neither of them looked embarrassed.

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