Dear Ex, See you never
But it doesn't look like a goodbye for a mother, a friend, a woman who liked gardening, hated small talk and kept her son's secrets even when keeping them cost her.
I stand beside Damon in the front pew, my hand on his arm, my face composed. This is my job now, to be visible, to be supportive, to perform the role of devoted wife while cameras flash outside and reporters speculate about the size of the inheritance.
Damon is like stone now.
He hasn't cracked since the day he read the letter, since those moments in my arms when he fell apart, he pulled himself together for the arrangements, the notifications, the endless logistics of death.
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