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The caption sat there like a slap across the face. “Sunday brunch with my girls! Living our best lives!” I stared at the photograph until the screen blurred. My husband was being buried. Her father. And she was posing with cocktails. I never replied. What was there left to say? The funeral ended twenty-seven minutes…
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