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Average rating3.8
This was a sad story but it was mixed with some funny times. Holly is a new widow since her husband recently passed away from a brain tumor. This story goes over all the difficulties of coping after such a loss and also with keeping up with friends and family who don't know what to say. She is talking to her mom one day when she reminds her that there is an envelope there for her. Her mother told her it just says “The List” over her name and address and hopes it isn't important because it had been sitting there quit a while. Holly realized it might be from her husband since they had joked about him making her a list to remind her of things. This was enough to get her out of bed and she went to retrieve it to see what it was. It was from her husband and it contained a small sealed envelope for each month after he died. These notes motivated her to get out and do more things instead of staying in bed and crying her eyes out. She lived for the day she could open the next one but also knowing that one day they would be all gone and she would truly be on her own.