Author: LNG

PART 4 – What Do You Tell Your Children? !! I drove home with Michael’s letter in my purse and Margaret’s existence sitting beside me like an invisible passenger. At …

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PART 5 – The First Visit !! Emily was the first of the children to ask to see Margaret. She waited three days. That surprised me. Emily had always been …

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PART 6 – The Money Michael Never Explained !! I spent the next month going through Michael’s finances. This time I did not avoid the office. I brought coffee, opened …

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PART 7 – Jenna’s Anger !! Jenna stayed angry longer than the rest of us. Not loud anger. Cold anger. She stopped mentioning Michael entirely. When the grandchildren asked about …

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PART 8 – Four Generations at One Table !! Jenna chose a neutral place. Not Margaret’s house. Not mine. A small restaurant halfway between our cities. She asked Emily to …

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PART 9 – The Box Behind the Books !! Six months after I found the rent folder, I decided to clear the rest of Michael’s office. Not because I was …

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PART 10 – The Anniversary !! Our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary arrived in October. The first without Michael. I had been dreading it for weeks. Every year, he bought flowers from …

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PART 11 – The Legal Question !! The legal problem arrived almost a year after Michael’s death. Margaret received a letter from a company that had purchased her rental property. …

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PART 12 – The Story We Tell About the Dead !! Two years after Michael died, our oldest grandson had a school assignment about family history. Noah was twelve. He …

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PART 13 – The Photograph at Christmas !! Our first Christmas with Margaret was awkward. The second was easier. By the third, the grandchildren behaved as if she had always …

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