It had barely been four weeks since my mother’s funeral when my stepfather called and told me he had news.
At the time, I was still living inside her absence. The house hadn’t adjusted yet. Neither had I.
Her presence lingered everywhere—quiet but unmistakable. Her reading glasses rested on the coffee table beside a half-finished book. The knitted blanket she …
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