“Immediate Family Only,” My Daughter-in-Law Texted—That Week, I Made a Purchase No One Expected

of our last conversations before the cancer took her. “She’ll push him to be his best self.” And she had been right about that. Daniel had flourished in his career, grown more confident, built the life Catherine and I had always hoped he would have.

But Catherine had also warned me, in her gentle way, to maintain boundaries. “Dorothy sees Megan as her continue reading …