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Every Sunday, my mom sent the same message in the family group chat: “Dinner at 6. Bring Tupperware.” It was not a question. It was not an invitation. It was a command wrapped in love, and none of us ever complained because Mom’s Sunday dinners were the one thing our family still did right. My brother Daniel brought his three kids. My sister Olivia brought dessert she never baked herself. I brought flowers because Mom always pretended she didn’t care, then put them in the center of the table anyway. No matter how busy we were, no matter who was fighting, no matter what bills, divorces, layoffs, or disappointments had hit that week, Sunday at six meant pot roast, roasted carrots, mashed potatoes, and Mom standing at the stove saying, “Don’t hover unless you’re helping.” She had never missed a week. Not when Dad died six years ago. Not when she had pneumonia and insisted soup counted as dinner. Not even when the power went out and she made sandwiches by candlelight, laughing like it was a five-star restaurant. So when I opened my phone at 10 a.m. and saw a message from her that said, “PLEASE DON’T COME TODAY,” I stared at it like my screen had cracked. No emoji. No explanation. No “I’m tired.” No “I’m sick.” Just those four words, all caps, sitting in the chat like a hand pressed against a locked door. I typed back immediately. “Mom? Everything okay?” The message showed delivered. Then read. Then nothing. I waited two minutes, telling myself she was probably in the shower, or maybe she had sent it by mistake, or maybe Olivia had annoyed her so much last Sunday that she was finally taking a day off. But my stomach had already tightened. Mom did not leave people on read. Mom replied to grocery store coupons. Mom sent thumbs-up emojis to weather alerts. Five minutes later, Daniel texted me privately. “I called Mom but she doesn’t pick up. Have you talked to her?” I hadn’t. Then Olivia joined in. “Did she cancel dinner? That’s weird. She told me yesterday she was making a roast.” That was when I knew something was wrong. I called again. Straight to voicemail. Daniel called. Same thing. Olivia drove past the house and texted us that Mom’s car was in the driveway. The curtains were open. The front door was locked. And then she noticed something. Mom’s kitchen light was on. We all agreed to meet there. When we arrived, nobody knocked at first. We just stood on the porch, staring at the house where we had spent hundreds of Sundays. Daniel finally pounded on the door. “Mom! It’s us!” Nothing. Then we heard something. A faint sound from inside. A chair scraping against the floor. We looked at each other. Daniel tried the door again. This time, it opened. Mom was standing in the hallway. She looked completely exhausted. But she was not sick. She was crying. That scared me more than anything. Mom never cried in front of us. She looked at the three of us and whispered, “I told you not to come.” I stepped closer. “Why?” She wiped her face and looked toward the kitchen. There was a large cardboard box sitting on the dining table. Our Sunday table. The table where Dad used to carve the roast. The table where we had celebrated birthdays. The table where Mom had kept our family together long after everything else had started falling apart. “I was going to tell you tonight,” she said. “Tell us what?” She took a shaky breath. “I’m selling the house.” Nobody spoke. Olivia looked stunned. Daniel just stared at Mom. I felt something inside me collapse. “This house?” I asked. Mom nodded. “I can’t afford it anymore.” Then she opened the cardboard box. Inside were photographs. Hundreds of them. Some were from our childhood. Some were from Dad. Some were pictures of us sitting around that exact table. And underneath the photographs were letters. Our letters. Birthday cards. Mother’s Day notes. Drawings from Daniel’s kids. Every little thing we had ever given her. Mom touched the top photograph with trembling fingers. “I thought I needed the house to keep the family together,” she said. “But I finally realized I don't.” Daniel walked over and hugged her. Olivia started crying. I couldn't move. Because suddenly I understood why she had told us not to come. She wasn't trying to push us away. She was afraid that if we came, she wouldn't be strong enough to let go. Then Mom smiled through her tears. “So,” she said quietly, “this is our last Sunday dinner here.” Nobody knew what to say. Then Daniel asked, “Are you still making the roast?” Mom laughed. It was the first real laugh we'd heard from her all day. “Of course I am.” We spent the afternoon packing boxes. At six, we sat around the table one last time. The roast was perfect. The carrots were slightly burned. The potatoes had too much butter. And Mom stood beside the stove, shaking her head as we all hovered around her. “Don’t hover unless you’re helping.” For the first time, none of us laughe

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