PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

Ask people what they need.

Don’t make dignity conditional.

Soup should be hot.

Coffee matters.

Remember names.

I realized my mother had left more than a secret.

She had left instructions.

Six months later, I moved back to Los Angeles.

Everyone thought I was making a grief decision.

Maybe I was.

But not all grief decisions are bad.

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