Category: Essays
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The Make-Up Chair
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
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A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
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A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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Belongings
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Soon after a friend has passed away, a woman vacillates about keeping, and wearing some of the friend’s belongings.
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