Chapter1
A Digital Handshake at the Virtual Front Door
A True Story
Bonnie Martin was preparing herself emotionally for widowhood. It was Sunday, August 2, 2015, and Bill, her husband of over 40 years, was going to die. That’s not what his doctor said, but it was the truth. Bonnie knew it, and she thought Bill probably knew it, too, though, from the way he was talking and the questions he seemed to make a point of not asking, it was pretty clear to her that he wasn’t quite ready to accept it yet, even if she was. Ready to accept the reality of the situation, that is. What she was not ready to accept, even as she was making her own private preparations, was that it had to happen now. And that’s why she was on the Internet: she was looking for ...
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