Mom Said The Anniversary Trip Was Canceled Because Of Budget Issues. A Week Later I Found A Facebook Album Of My Family In Paris Without Me. Then She Asked Me For Help

phone calls. I thought about the six years of silence after my father’s funeral, when I was nineteen and raw and could have used an uncle who showed up. I thought about my grandmother’s grave being invoked like stage furniture. I thought about all of it.

Then I thought about the disease itself, which didn’t know any of that history and didn’t care about continue reading …