Clarissa

We were still on the apex of the merriment, and pleasantry was going when my father asked again.

“ How is my in-law Barry? I had not seen him. I long to see him, at least to give him my unflinching gratitude for his sense of humanity towards you, my daughter, and how his aura of benevolence was what kept your mother alive till this day,” my father asked.

My mother was nodding in affirmation as if they all planned to diffuse me with questions.

“ He will be right here in a jiffy. Probably, he may have online patronizers he was attending. Like I said earlier, he was...