Joni had everyone in the room rolling with laughter. Not that the group was insensitive to her frightening story of choking on a bit of turkey while her family was engrossed in a football game, but because they knew it had a happy ending. She was telling it, after all.

Joni said she was waving her arms, pointing at her throat and making a disgusting gurgling sound. “Mom’s just acting out again, she’s so dramatic,” one of her grown sons said. When trying to get attention failed she impaled herself on the banister clutching her fists right above her belly button.

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