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Jul 18, 2026
Three faint knocks came from inside my mother’s coffin less than an hour before we were supposed to bury her, and for several seconds I convinced myself grief had finally made me hear things that weren’t there. Then the sound came again—weak, deliberate, unmistakably familiar—and I realized that everyone preparing to say goodbye to my mother might be standing only a few feet away from a terrible secret.
