Reading Time: 4 minutesThe phone rang. It was mid-March 2020; my niece on my husband’s side was calling. “You have to come down to Kansas right away, Mom’s in hospice.” The COVID shutdown was upon us. We live in Minnesota, and no travel was recommended. To complicate the situation, my husband was in the hospital with a non-COVID illness. I was able to say goodbye to my sister-in-law over the phone, but he couldn’t connect with his sister. On March 20, 2020, my sister-in-law passed away—no funeral, no memorial, nothing. Buried next to…
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