I had reached out to my step mom for her birthday a few days ago. Now, I never called her “step mom” in my life. She married my dad at a time I didn’t see him much and they lived in the middle of nowhere, but I know she took good care of him when he had fully immersed into the mental prison of Alzheimer’s until his death. Anyway, I phoned her and the number was disconnected. Hmm. So I wrote her via Facebook. Didn’t have a response. Then today, one of my aunts, also unable to reach her, combed through some Facebook posts and saw my dad’s wife had died back on Nov. 7. She was a good lady.