Clara had lost her Great Aunt Maggie. To be fair, it was not only Clara who had lost the old woman, but her entire family. It was Clara, however, who felt the most guilt.
"How does nobody know where Aunt Maggie is?" Clara asked her father, whose mother's sister Maggie was. Her father promised he'd ask the family, but no word came back. Clara suspected that the family didn't mourn the loss; the old woman could have been nicely described as "irritable" and "weird".
The best anyone could do was Clara's mother who remembered something about a nursing home in the area of Genesee Street and Butler Avenue. Clara looked up a dozen various key words online and found a handful of possibilities. Was Great Aunt Maggie even still alive? The family, outside of Clara, agreed the ninety-something year old woman was probably dead, but contradicting that was the absence of a body in her grave. Where was Great Aunt Maggie?
No comments:
Post a Comment