“But honoring the family ancestors was not a problem. She’d been out at dawn to cut the lilacs, both purple and white, and now the house was filled with the fragrance. She picked enough to leave one bouquet at home on the kitchen counter. When Phillip arrived, he helped her load the buckets in her SUV and drove them to the cemetery. They weren’t the first ones there. Since the gates weren’t locked, people came when they wanted. They greeted the other early birds and stopped at the earliest f...amily plot, where they placed jars of lilacs on each of six graves. At the next, where the immediate generation before Lynn lay, they set out five jars. She and Paul had purchased the lot adjacent to his parents, but his sister had already volunteered to decorate those graves, so she moved to where Paul’s marker lay.“You know why I don’t really have trouble coming out here, unlike a lot of people I know?” Phillip asked.“No, why?” She arranged the vase with lilacs and turned from the rear of the car.“Because they’re not here.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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