“Don’t bury her—that’s not her in the coffin!” a little girl cries out at a Chicago funeral, stopping everything as a shocking truth inside the coffin is revealed

And Caroline Whitaker had been real.

Three days earlier, Ava had been sitting outside a South Side pharmacy with her knees pulled to her chest, trying not to cry.

Her grandmother, Rosa, needed heart medication. The bottle had been empty for nearly a week. Ava had spent the afternoon continue reading …