At The Signing Of My First House, No One Congratulated Me

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“Ruth Engel,” he said. “Your grandmother on your mother’s side.”

I blinked. “Gran Ruth is dead. She died when I was eleven. Mom said she passed in a nursing home in Traverse City.”

Harlan turned his monitor around so I could see. “Ruth Engel is alive. She’s eighty-one. She lives in a memory care facility in Muskegon. And according to state records,continue reading …