Part 1 *** My Eight-Year-Old Nephew Refused to Leave His Mother’s Casket Because She Had Told Him to Wait for a Sound
My eight-year-old nephew, Leo, spent the entire wake sitting beside his mother’s casket with his stuffed bear pressed against his chest. Everyone assumed he was too shocked to understand that my sister Rachel was gone, but Leo kept repeating the same strange instruction.
“Don’t close it yet. Mom told me to wait for the sound.”
