An Ambulance Took My Mother to the Hospital—When I Returned for Her Medical Folder, I Found My Mother-in-Law Moving Into Her Apartment

“Very.”

“Then at least she didn’t send cheap coffee.”

That was Lucia.

A week later, she sent a message to Ophelia:

Thank you for the cactus. You may come for coffee next Sunday if you ask first.

Ask first.

That phrase carried the whole history.

Ophelia did.