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Then I look up to the ceiling and there’s a piece of a toast stuck to it.
Gram looks and howls with laughter.
We both laugh so hard we gently collapse down to the floor.
We laugh until we cry.
We laugh until our stomachs hurt.
“How do we get that down?” I ask as I wipe my cheeks.
“The fuck if I know!” Gram says as she tries to catch her breath.
Not even two minutes later the piece of toast falls from the ceiling down to the floor.
Gram and I look at each other again.
We laugh again.
We cry again.
Then I hug her.
I’m going to miss her so much when she’s gone.
And then she was gone.
In the blink of an eye.
Gram made it a full extra six months past herdeath date.
I uprooted my entire life to take care of her.
I didn’t once for a second regret it either.
Except now I had this big house to clean up and figure out what to do with it.
Maybe I moved extra slow doing that on purpose.
Maybe I just wasn’t ready to say goodbye for good.
I openedthe front door and Hannah pointed at me.
“You were crying alone again, weren’t you?”
“It wasn’t like that.”
“Then what was it, Hazel?”
“It was… it’s a long story.”
I started to turn and my best friend grabbed my arm and spun me back around.
“Tell me everything.”
“I fell off a step stool and almost hurt myself. Then I saw a picture of me and Gram when I was a little girl and it brought back memories. Then I looked up and saw the jelly stain on the ceiling…”
“So it was good crying then.”
