After one tectonic shift and another, the grand climax of my ruin is finally here… It started long ago, when another tempest raged through and cancer took Mom from us... ….and then, 17 years after her, without a sign, with nothing, you are gone just like that… it felt like the final blow. The news of your departure—though 11 long years have bled into the ether—still cuts through me, fresh and piercing as a lethal morning breeze. …The news that traveled through the air and cro