Then:

“I miss you.”

I sat there for an hour.

I realized grief does not require a person to have been perfect.

Sometimes we grieve them more honestly after we stop pretending they were.

PART 29 — THE BAKERY EXPANDS

I used a small portion of the inheritance to expand my bakery.

Not because I needed another business.

Because it was mine.

I bought the building outright from the trust that had quietly owned it.