Cabin Relief
It was the summer before my first year of college. I had reluctantly decided to go with my parents to our summer cottage by the Ohio River in western Kentucky. My girlfriend of two years had just broken up with me. She explained to me that she had wanted more room to explore other relationships while she went off to college. Fine with me. My parents didn't seem to mind that I had drunk myself into a stupor on our first night at the cottage. They seemed to be rather understanding of my...