Maximus We have to bury my mother today. Annie has set out a suit for me to wear. She’s been giving me space the last few days but all I want to do is hold her in my arms. She is grieving in her own way, she also lost a mother that cared for her. My final moments with her were so ordinary I never could have seen it coming. We were just talking like any other day. She had asked me to take her to her room near the end of the party. We made some small talk on the way up, she said how happy she was for me. How proud she was of the man I’ve become. Annie walks out of the closet wearing a black lace dress with a patching pair of heels, she has a black sun hat on as well. She looks radiant, she has been my rock through all of this. I can’t even imagine my life without her. Maybe my mother kn

