After Caring for My Mother in Law for Ten Years, I Was Given 48 Hours to Leave

it. You did not hesitate. You told me to pack my things with wet funeral shoes still on my feet.”

He looked away. He said he had thought Margaret was being sentimental, that she was confused, that Chloe had said.

“Chloe told you exactly what you wanted to hear,” I said.

A silence settled between us, the kind that does not require filling.

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