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My hands shook. I typed: “Who is this?”

The day after the funeral, I came home, opened my laptop, and the icon had changed. It was red now. A small, pulsing red dot. systray icon

Three dots appeared. Then:

I stared at the screen until the cursor blinked again. I typed back everything I never said at the hospital — the apologies, the love, the stupid fight about the car. My hands shook

Then my father died.