Emily

I watched as they lowered my grandpa’s coffin into the ground. I felt powerless and wept silently. He was gone. My last living family member. Well, my last true family member. No one else, not even my great aunt, seemed to care that he was gone. They were all too busy to attend his funeral. F*ck them!

Only a few friends of Grandpa’s had attended. Lin, the owner of Wuqao’s Chinese restaurant stood next to me, holding my hand. It was comforting. I had known her ever ...