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I stare at hi cremated”

“She’ll be cremated in the casket,” he says

What’s the point of that? I want to ask But I know he’ll tell me they don’t just dump bodies in the incinerator

He gets up and leads me across the office and down the hall to another room filled with caskets and urns

I look around ide eyes

“I know,” Michael says “It looks like a bunch of vampires live here”

I scoff “They don’t sleep in caskets”

Michael’s groooes up

I clear my throat “So, which one is the cheapest?”

He shows h,” I muse “Don’t know if that’s necessary”

He gives ht-lipped smile “If you’d like this casket, then we can settle on the urn”

Again, I go for the cheapest I can practically hearat me, “Don’t you dare spend money you don’t have to! I don’t need all that” Most of her life ere pinching pennies and that’s continued with me

After I’ve made my choices, Michael says he’ll callEarlier he made me pick out clothes for her casket and that was so unbelievably hard I broke down crying in my mother’s closet and Lenore had to choose her clothes in the end, put the to look at what’s inside I just can’t do it