Better this time.
Specific.
She apologized for calling me a gold digger.
For making jokes at Thanksgiving.
For telling relatives I was waiting for Frank to die.
That one was new.
It hurt.
But I appreciated hearing it from her rather than from someone else.
The house is still ours.
All three of ours.
The two-year restriction has another 15 months left.
I still live there.
Brad comes by to help with the property.
Stephanie has started going through Linda’s old things with me.
Sometimes we disagree.
Sometimes one of us cries.
Sometimes we laugh.
Last week, we found an old recipe card in my mother’s handwriting tucked inside Linda’s cookbook.