My parents told Grandma Eleanor they were taking her to lunch.
Three hours later, a nursing facility in Ohio called me.
“Is this Ivan Sterling?” the woman asked. “Your grandmother listed you as her emergency contact. Her suitcase is still here in our lobby, but the family members who brought her left before the admission paperwork was finished.”
I was standing in my apartment kitchen, holding a cup of coffee I suddenly had no desire to drink.
“What do you mean, they left?”
The administrator hesitated.
“They said they had
