My Son Said He’d “Handled Everything” — Including My Savings and My Home

in their children, in the face of whatever the evidence suggested, for longer than the evidence probably warranted.

That version of him had died on the phone that morning.

I grieved it the way you grieve something that was real and is now gone, and then I put the grief in the place where you put things you’ve dealt with, and I got up from the chair and continue reading …