My 101-Year-Old Grandmother Hadn’t Left Bed in Two Years—Then She Came to My Daughter’s Birthday With a Locked Red Suitcase and Said, “Take Off Her Left Sock”

She was twelve.

She asked:

“Can I bring the suitcase?”

I almost said no.

Then:

“What are you planning to say?”

“That Great-Great-Grandma Margaret kept family papers in it.”

“Anything about murder?”