I Put My Parents Estate in a Trust Just in Case and That Same Day My Sister Told Me Not to Come Home

was still thin and gray against the back windows. The lawn beyond the glass sloped down toward a stand of old maples, the kind of trees that had been there longer than any of us and would outlast all of us too. I remember looking at them when the phone rang, the way you notice small ordinary things right before something tips.

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