The Wall

Unresolved family grief keeps inventing anniversaries no one else tracks. There is no funeral for the version of your family you kept hoping might arrive. People keep asking if I will reconnect like there is not a whole graveyard of attempts already. It hurts differently when the person could call and chooses not to. The silence has a family resemblance all its own. People keep asking if I will reconnect like there is not a whole graveyard of attempts already.

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