– “You’ve got to do something about this,” they jibed him.  

Of course, later they told their kids that they loved us all. Usually they added, “despite the headaches you caused us.”

Ginny’s parents had storytelling in their bones. Will’s hands reenacted stories, swooping up high or spinning across the table with an ice cream spoon while he added sound effects from an array of odd noises he’d been finetuning since his childhood. Kat read aloud from a thick storybook of Irish or English classics, with appropriate accents and engaging expressions. Except! She would often ask Ginny to pick out a book and then read it to her, while Kat stood ironing clothes from the large laundry basket. Ginny loved it all. She lives in a little post office box on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.