The Morning After My Sister’s Funeral Her Boss Called Me With a Warning Not to Tell My Family

He read the email exchange twice. He looked at the sticky note for a long time.

“Your sister was scared,” he said.

“She didn’t scare easily. Which means whoever she suspected was close.”

“Walk me through her symptoms,” he said.

I described what I knew. Nausea that had started about five months before her death. Hair thinning. Fatigue that she had attributed continue reading …