“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

But she did not walk past Ava.

She knelt.

“Hi, sweetheart,” she said gently. “Are you hungry?”

Ava stared at her. Adults did not kneel in front of her. Adults looked down, looked away, or looked annoyed.

“My grandma needs medicine,” Ava whispered before she could stop herself.

The woman’s expression shifted continue reading …