My Mom’s Cat Vanished After Her Funeral – on Christmas Eve, He Returned and Led Me Somewhere I Never Expected

Even when the chemo drained her down to nothing, she still wanted the sparkle.

I thought I’d lost the last piece of my mother.

The lights made everything feel festive and wrong at the same time.

The ornaments were half unpacked on the table. The same ones she’d collected since I was a kid. She made me promise I’d put them up. Made me say it out loud in her final week.