My father Raymond humiliated my seventy six year old grandmother Ellen in the middle of the check in line at the Los Angeles airport. She had provided the funds for our entire
family to take a dream vacation to Madrid. When the airline employee checked her reservation, she revealed that Raymond had given Ellen a fake printed itinerary. He callously told her to take a cab back home to Portland while the rest of the family proceeded with the trip. Refusing to let her be abandoned, I tore my boarding pass in half and chose to stay behind with her
