Chapter 7

If only it had been for another reason. But Meredith had absolutely no cause to think Jen suddenly wanted to be with her after hearing nothing from her for twenty years. We can call it anything you like. I thought of “The Bucket List Party”, but I can’t get away from my mother’s words. So how do you feel about the “Life is Too Short Celebration”?

It’s inspired. Now, let me go over it again to see if I’ve got the gist of it. We send out an email to everyone attending and ask them to list things they wish they’d had the nerve to do, or regret never doing, or want to do before they die. Then we gather all the ideas and see which of them are plausible, and provide the experiences for them.

And you’re going to draft the email, right? That is, being the bigger talker of the two of us.

That doesn’t make me the better writer, you know. We’re in this together.