Three Days Before the Casket Was Delivered, My Son Asked Me to Sign a Document
“No, I won’t.”
“You’re saying no?”
“Not until I’ve seen Chloe.”
He took a step toward me.
For a moment he looked like his father, tired around the eyes, but his father never set his mouth like that.
“Then we’re finished,” he said.
“You aren’t my mother anymore.
Understand?