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The Last Game

My dad passed away, and his lawyer gathered us all to read his will. “For my daughter Lara, I leave the house and everything in it,” he said. My heart …

What Have You Done

A text story I got pregnant by Justin, a quiet carpenter with rough hands and the kindest heart I had ever known. When I told my father we were expecting …

Did She Finally Give You the House?

A text story My aunt left me her house, her car, and nearly $120,000 in savings. Aunt Verity. My mother’s older sister, never married, forty-one years as a school district …

Six Words

Part 1 My sister gave me the ugliest dress at her wedding. Then the groom’s grandmother took my hand. All seven bridesmaids wore elegant lavender gowns. I was given a …

Seventeen Circled Dates

A text story I found an old calendar in my father’s office while cleaning the house after he passed away. It was a 1998 wall calendar from Delrose Feed & …

The Stump

A text story My neighbor cut down my forty-year-old oak tree while I was on vacation. Said it was “dropping leaves in his pool.” That tree was planted by my …

Open Only If I Die

Part 1 My husband of thirty-four years died suddenly while I was still holding his hand in the ICU. Emmett Rowe. Sixty-six years old. He went into the hospital on …

I Was Saving This Announcement for Last

A text story My husband announced our divorce at my retirement party. I was sixty-four, celebrating thirty-five years at the same company. Delacroix Industrial Supply, four hundred and twelve employees, …

Mom, I Just Need

A text story When my son Dustin told me his girlfriend was pregnant, he was seventeen. I handed him two hundred dollars and said, “Not under my roof. You want …

I Will Find You Again

A text story My mother kept a high school yearbook hidden in a locked drawer. I found it after she died. Bottom left of her desk, the one drawer that …