At My Daughter’s Baby Shower, Her Husband Dropped My Nine-Month Hand-Stitched Quilt On The Gift Table And Said, “This Thing Is Garbage.” I Smiled, Folded It Back Into My Tote, And Left The Country Club—Because By Morning, My Attorney Was Holding The Deed To That Lawn.

because she thought they’d grow into cookies.

How she cried when her goldfish died and insisted on a funeral with hymns.

How she believed quilts were magic.

I tell her about Eddie too.

About the way he whistled when he fixed things.

About the way he kissed my forehead before early shifts.

About how he would’ve adored her.

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