My dad just informed me that, for literally the first time in my life, I will not see him on Christmas day.
For the last twenty years or so, he and my step mother have hosted a christmas morning breakfast. This year, she decided that she's not up for it, their house is too small, and if folks want to see them on christmas morning, they can go to her son's house.
Her son is a giant, proud bigot. I despise him, and won't set foot in his home. She knows this.
Dad has known for weeks that this would be the case. He told me today.