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I Opened My Late Wife’s Forbidden Drawer—and Found a Key She Hid

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of a life.

ITEM 1: An empty foil of generic ibuprofen and two loose cough drops. The foil makes that sharp crackle sound. These are the ghosts of her pain. The nights she had a migraine but didn’t want to wake me up because I had work in the morning. I toss the candy wrappers in the trash bag. Then I freeze. I’m throwing away things her hands touched.continue reading …

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