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her politely that she had nothing. I have spent 46 years making sure that never happened to anyone I could reach.

So, on the 3rd of October, I wrote down: funeral home, Social Security, pension administrator, deed, six certified copies of the death certificate.

My son came in that afternoon and read the list over my shoulder.

“Mom,” he said, “you don’t continue reading …