Seven Years After My Daughter’s Funeral, I Followed Her Husband to a Rehabilitation Center—And Saw a Woman I Thought Was Dead

But the provisional patient number didn’t match the number on our old identification notice.

I read the date.

Then again.

The transfer was recorded four days after the county had issued the identification notice our family received.

I stared.

“If Melissa was dead, why was a patient connected with her records transferred afterward?”

Calvin folded his hands.

“That’s the question Havenwood began asking.”