“It was instant,” she said softly. “They didn’t suffer.”
When I was small, that was enough, but as I grew older, I started noticing the gaps in Grandma’s story.
I was five years old when it happened.
Other kids visited their deceased relatives’ graves, but not me.
I had no graves to visit, no place to leave flowers.
One afternoon, when I was around 12, I asked Grandma about it while we were washing dishes.
“Where are Mom and Dad buried?”