No One Came to My Husband’s Funeral. They Were All at My Sister’s Engagement Party.

Patterson to drive me home.

“Is someone meeting you there?” he asked with genuine concern. “You shouldn’t be alone tonight.”

“I’ll be all right,” I assured him, though I wasn’t certain that was true.

As I climbed the steps to our empty house, my phone buzzed with a text from my mother: “Call us when you get a chance. We need to discuss some important continue reading …