Your Third Third

Grief Arrives With a Clipboard

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Thirteen years ago this week, my parents died together in a car accident. This episode isn't mostly about the grief. It's about the part the sympathy cards leave out: the logistics. Four hundred drawers. A saw my dad carried from house to house for a lifetime, and the question neither my brother nor I could answer. Why this saw?

It took me years to see that we weren't sorting objects that week.…