daughter died.”
“I know what they told you.”
“I have her death certificate.”
Tears began running down Nora’s face.
“I know.”
I stood so quickly that my chair scraped against the floor.
“No. There has to be a mistake.”
I walked to the kitchen sink and gripped the edge of the counter.
Outside, someone was walking a dog.
A delivery truck stopped across the street.
The neighborhood looked exactly as it always did.
Yet everything inside my world had changed.
I turned back toward my sister.
“Are you saying Ellie
