Dear Eric: My brother died of Covid four years ago. When we flew to the memorial service, his wife’s sibling slipped us the box of ashes. She said my brother’s wife was too distraught to deal with it. We were so shocked we just put them in our trunk.
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Those ashes came back with us on the flight and have been sitting on our porch in a bookshelf all this time. One of his children is now finished with college, and the other will soon be 18 and complete high school. My spouse did mention that maybe something should