An Unexpected Reunion
Following a painful loss, Garnet and her cousin take comfort in each other.
"This would have broken Grandma's heart," I said. My cousin Shane and I sat beside each other at my grandmother's dining room table, watching in horror as our family engaged in a screaming match. We'd returned from Grandma's funeral earlier that afternoon, and what was supposed to have been a quiet dinner had devolved into one of the ugliest arguments I'd ever seen. My aunts and uncles, joined by several cousins, hurled a...