After My First Love Died, Stepson Sent a Million

The funeral had only just broken up, and the wind hadn't yet carried off all the paper ash. I was crouched by the front door, gathering up the old cotton slippers of his that no one had gotten around to throwing out, when my phone pinged.

I assumed it was another relative sending over a list of funeral sympathy money. I glanced down and froze.

Bank deposit notification: $1,240,000.00.