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    My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies

    It’s common now for people to linger as digital ghosts after they die, transforming the nature of loss.
    by Kate Lindsay Aug 10, 2023 4 minutes
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    When my mom makes our family Christmas cookies, she no longer needs a recipe. Instead, we stand side by side in the kitchen while I follow her muscle memory, rolling Russian tea cakes in powdered sugar and pressing the bottoms of forks into the dough balls for chocolate crinkle cookies. But my mom is Type A to a : She’s scanned the pages of step-by-step instructions and keeps them organized on her Google Drive, just in case. And she’s already made sure that, when she dies—whenever that awful day might come—the folder containing

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