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The pastor\u2014a young man I\u2019d never met before, hired by the funeral home\u2014delivered his eulogy with the enthusiasm of someone reading a phone book. Generic platitudes about eternal rest and loving memories floated past me like smoke. I wanted to stand up and tell him the truth: that George Holloway had built three houses with his own hands, that he could identify any bird by its call, that he cried watching old war movies but never at funerals, that he made me laugh even when I didn\u2019t want to, especially when I didn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n

Instead, I sat still, hands folded in my lap, while this stranger talked about a man he\u2019d never known to an audience that didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

The morning had started with a text from Peter. Not a call\u2014a text. Seven words that felt like a slap: \u201cSorry, Mom. Something came up. Can\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

No explanation. No apology that held weight. Just a digital shrug from the son who\u2019d once fallen asleep in George\u2019s lap while his father read him adventure stories, George\u2019s deep voice turning dragons into friends and oceans into playgrounds.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d stared at those seven words for a full minute before checking Celia\u2019s Instagram. Because that\u2019s what you do now, isn\u2019t it? When your children won\u2019t answer your calls, you learn to track their lives through curated photographs and filtered lies.<\/p>\n

There she was, posted just an hour earlier: champagne flutes raised with three girlfriends, their faces flushed with bottomless mimosas and the particular kind of laughter that comes from not having a care in the world. The caption read \u201cSunday brunch with my girls! Living our best lives!\u201d
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