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“It was kind of far-fetched, but life is often like that, which is fine with me.”

“The song went on for so long that I had time to see Mom’s ghost dancing in the distance and clapping like she used to do. People like that never really die completely, I thought with a smile.”

“They only brought up happy memories, so they laughed a lot, and I wound up laughing, too, because you can’t be miserable all the time.”

“I knew there were rules for the living, but it turned out there were rules for the dead, too. Who knew? It was strange, but that’s how it was.”

“Mom’s eyes stayed open so as not to add to his misery, because sometimes lies are gentler than reality.”

“I had to lie; I couldn’t bear to tell our son that to spare other people’s lives, that was where his mom would have to die.”