Why I Don’t Feel Guilty About Skipping My Mother’s Funeral

The Obituary I Did Not Write. The Eulogy I Could Not Give.

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I did not attend my mother’s funeral. She died on December 25, 2018. If you knew her, you would know why that date mattered.

She was not buried by her people. She was buried by my father’s people. There was not an obituary in the paper for…