In the second year they finished the library project her daughter had been managing, and they put her name on the dedication plaque in the lobby, and they invited a nine-year-old to the opening and let her cut the ribbon.

Sophie has a photograph of that on her wall.

She is in a green dress.

She is holding scissors that are much too big for her and she is not smiling, exactly, but she is looking straight into the camera.

Margaret went back to work.

Not to the emergency department; she couldn’t and she knew it.