My Sister Called to Say Mom Had Died, While Mom Was Standing Right Beside Me

Mama there.

Dumped her, really. Like an inconvenience she’d finally found a place to store.

She’d forged my signature on the admission paperwork while I was on a work trip in London. She’d told the facility our mother had severe dementia and needed twenty-four-hour care. She’d signed a stack of documents with false urgency and tearful gratitude, painting continue reading …