This Is Us
Store in a Cool, Dry Place
A letter to my son
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7 min readNov 11, 2020
Dear Paul:
One of your sisters asks, “What happens if I shake his box?”
It is one thing to walk by the table with various keepsakes, notes, and photographs dedicated to the dead brother who came before her. It is quite another to realize the small, brown paper-wrapped box contains his ashes.
