<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" class="">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">My mom passed recently and we weren't close either, but it can still hit you hard.</span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Indeed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s also the battling emotions of “Everyone expects me to be heartbroken and I don’t know what to say.” That’s how I felt after my mother-in-law died. I didn’t shed a tear, but everybody was braced for me to be upset. Dealing with their expectations was… odd.</div></body></html>