The Morning After My Son’s Funeral, an Airport Worker Called and Said, “Your Son Checked In”

She said others do not. She said toxicology on tissue after burial was imperfect and might give us nothing at all.

She said the decision was mine and there was no wrong answer.

I asked her to give me one day.

That night I sat on my back steps until almost two in the morning, and I thought about my son at nine years old telling me he had broken the neighbor’s continue reading …