Chapter 27The news Boots was coming home for Christmas picked me up some. A day or so before she was to get in, Daniel came to the shipping area, hemming and hawing so bad, I knew he had something to say I wasn’t going to like. It took him ten minutes to get it out.
“Charlie, Lisa and I would like you to come over for dinner on Christmas day. Daniel Jr. specifically asked for Uncle Charlie.”
“Aw, come on,” I said. Daniel Jr. was about four months old.
“Please, we want you to share the day with us.”
“Boots is coming for a visit. She promised to cook me dinner.”
“Bring her along. Charlie, I’d really like you to come. Please. Do it for me.”
He knew I’d charge the gates of hell for him, but he didn’t know if I’d sit down to dinner with his wife. “Yeah, I guess so. If it’s okay with Boots
