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\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I said, looking up from the sympathy cards scattered across the mahogany dining table, the same table where James and I had shared thousands of meals, where we\u2019d planned our modest adventures and weathered the storms of his illness together. \u201cElanor, I don\u2019t understand, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Her smile was sharp as winter, cutting through the grief that had been my only companion since watching them lower my husband\u2019s casket into the unforgiving earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames is gone, Catherine, which means you\u2019re no longer under his protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The words hit me like a physical blow. Protection. As if loving her son had been some kind of elaborate con game. As if the 15 years I\u2019d spent caring for him through cancer treatments and remissions and the final devastating relapse had been calculated manipulation rather than devotion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I said, looking up from the sympathy cards scattered across the mahogany dining table, the same table where James and I had shared thousands of meals, where we\u2019d planned our modest adventures and weathered the storms of his illness together. \u201cElanor, I don\u2019t understand, don\u2019t you?\u201d Her smile was sharp as winter, cutting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4399,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}