A Week After Mom Died, We Found 28 Packages Outside Her Apartment. The First Box Made Me Burst Into Tears
“Are you sure we’re ready to do this?” my brother asked as we pulled into Mom’s apartment complex.
I looked at the building where she’d lived for the past 15 years.
“No,” I admitted. “But we have to start somewhere.”
Mom had died a week earlier.
We knew her health was getting worse, but neither of us expected to lose her so soon.
During her final days in the hospital, she’d still worried about us.
“Claire, don’t forget to eat something besides sandwiches,” she’d told me.
“And Ben, you look exhausted. Are you sleeping?”
We’d laughed because even from a hospital bed, she couldn’t stop being our mother.
She’d also given us instructions about her apartment.
“The spare keys are in the kitchen drawer. And don’t throw away Grandma’s plates.”
I’d promised we’d take care of everything.
I just hadn’t expected to do it without her.
Now Ben and I stood outside her building, neither wanting to move.
Finally, he picked up the empty boxes we’d brought for sorting her belongings.
“Come on.”
We climbed the stairs together.
Then we reached her floor.
And stopped.
There were packages everywhere.
Boxes were stacked against the wall, shopping bags crowded the doorway, and smaller mailers were wedged between them.
There had to be 30 deliveries.
“What on earth?” Ben muttered.
Mom barely bought anything for herself.
She wore sweaters she’d knitted years earlier, kept furniture from our childhood, and used vintage dishes inherited from her grandmother.
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