1 — Imaginary“Funny, isn’t it?” sighed Jack. “Being here alone.”
Snuggling up next to him, Jen nodded. She followed his gaze up to where she had known it would rest: Brigid’s picture of herself, Jen, and Jack: Jen’s gift to Brigid on her last birthday. Her previous birthday.
The first day of every November for the past twenty years, they had come to clean up the O’Danans’ house, first just the two of them, Jen’s brother Bobby, his wife Morgaine, and Tony, then with some of the greater Kamiyama clan, then with spouses, and children… People had slowly drifted away after a few years — until the previous year, it had been back to just her and Jack, Bobby, Morgaine, and the two last children at home, Bobby and Morgaine’s Brendan and Jen and Jack’s own youngest, Cynthia. Cynthia Brigid.
Cynth
