I Watched a Biker Fall to His Knees in a Graveyard Screaming a Child’s Name

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” I said.

“Ask.”

“Why today? Why a cemetery, alone, at sunrise? Why not come with your wife? Or your son’s wife?”

He was quiet for a long time. I thought maybe I’d asked too much. Then he spoke.

“My wife passed three years after Emily did. Cancer, but I think it was the grief. She never got up from it. She’d sit in Emily’s bedroom and just rock. Just rock continue reading …

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