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The dilemma

Sunday. Your father wants you to hear it, so he puts the tablet on the arm of the chair and asks her about the week. It is her voice, close enough that your neck goes cold, and she says she is glad he got the boiler sorted at last. The boiler broke in June, months after she died. Your father laughs at that, properly, the way he has not laughed at anything you have said in a year. Tomas is in the kitchen and has not come in.

Your options

  1. Say nothing to him and take it up with Tomas in the kitchen, out of your father's hearing.
  2. Say it out loud, gently, while he is sitting there: that is not her, and you both know it.
  3. Leave it alone. He is eating and sleeping, and nothing you say tonight beats that.

Her Voice on the Tablet

Your dad talks to your mum every night. Your brother built her out of old voicemails.

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