If You Stay Hidden, I Won’t Let Them Spray

Jennifer Estes
4 min readNov 2, 2021
Photo by Lubo Minar on Unsplash

Luna and I moved into my mom's basement. It's a lovely two-bedroom, partially finished basement. We came here for a year to save money and to mourn.

Luna hates it; she misses home. Home to Luna is the house in Draper, Tom's house. Even though I lived there since 2010, it never quite felt like home to me. Tom owned the house for years before he and I met in 2008. And after Tom passed away…

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Jennifer Estes

I am a widow, a mortician, a mom, and grandma. I write about grief, caregiving, substance use disorder, and the death care industry.