Her mom had been gone a year now.  She’d only now gotten around to sifting through her mom’s big box of papers.  She started the other day, but with her busier than usual work schedule, she’d just now gotten back to it.

     Most of what she’d found so far was pictures of people she barely knew and some she knew well.  She’d also found saved birthday and Christmas cards and a few other letters addressed to her mom.  There were a few small boxes of jewelry and a child’s Bible with her mom’s name in it.  All these mementos she had stopped to look at, treasuring the fact that they were her mom’s.  There had been envelopes of business papers, like mortgage papers, tax papers, receipts for big ticket it...

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