After My Husband’s Funeral I Came Home And Found My In Laws Packing Suitcases Like It Was Their House

the flowers faded.

Laugh first.

I did. More quietly this time, but enough. Enough that he would have recognized it.

The rest of the letter was brief. He apologized for leaving me to handle this particular ugliness while I was already grieving. He told me he loved me. He told me not to negotiate with people who treated loss as an opportunity. He said the continue reading …