The frozen turkey dinner was still hard as a brick when I found it on my grandmother’s birthday table, with a pink note from my mother that said, “Heat five minutes. Love you, Mom.” Two hours earlier, my parents had posted a smiling airport picture on Facebook beneath the words, “Aspen, here we come!” while Grandma June sat alone in the navy dress she wore to church, weddings, and funerals. I stood in the kitchen she had spent forty years filling with biscuits and roast chicken, and something inside me finally stopped making excuses for them.
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