Cancer

The family question about an absent parent has an answer that shows up in how you hold your jaw during certain conversations, not in what you decide to say. You can track it in which calls you return right away and which ones sit in your phone for days, in the specific exhaustion after a well-meaning relative asks if you've heard from them lately. What tires you most is smiling through the topic when your shoulders are doing something else entirely. The week gives you permission to stop performing neutrality about a situation your whole posture already knows.