Mysterious Ways

Birthday Gifts From Above

Glenna McKelvie

MONTGOMERY, TEXAS

I was at my mother’s house, sorting through her things. It was my birthday, but I was too sad to celebrate. Plus, there was so much to do. Mom had passed just two days earlier.

I felt the loss deeply, even though Mom and I had had a complicated relationship. I was the youngest of nine. She’d told me she thought

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