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

from Margaret’s chair.

“I’m glad,” I said. “Truly. I hope you keep doing that work regardless of what happens between us. Not as a down payment on getting your old life back.”

He nodded slowly. His eyes moved to the hallway again, to the stack of folding chairs and the sign-up sheet on the side table.

“She would have liked this,” he said. “This place.continue reading …